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Sep 30, 2003 | ISBN 9780142437636 Buy
Sep 30, 2003 | ISBN 9781440650031 Buy
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Sep 30, 2003 | ISBN 9780142437636
Sep 30, 2003 | ISBN 9781440650031
William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas. For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a book about the mechanization of the arts, told by way of a social history of the player piano in America. In the years before his death in 1998, he distilled the whole mass into a fiction, a dramatic monologue by an elderly man with a terminal illness. Continuing Gaddis’s career-long reflection on those aspects of corporate technological culture that are uniquely destructive of the arts, Agape Agape is a stunning achievement from one of the indisputable masters of postwar American fiction.
William Gaddis (1922-1998) was a master of the American novel who was frequently compared with Joyce, Nabokov, and Pynchon. Two of his novels, J R and A Frolic of His Own, won the National Book Award. He was a member… More about William Gaddis
“An exalted, paranoid outcry, a last wounded proclamation of the idea of the sacred rootedness of true art.” (The New York Times Book Review)“Gaddis’s final novel is perhaps his most poignant.” (Los Angeles Times)
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