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Agape Agape by William Gaddis

Agape Agape

By William Gaddis
Introduction by Sven Birkerts
Afterword by Joseph Tabbi

By William Gaddis
Introduction by Sven Birkerts
Afterword by Joseph Tabbi

By William Gaddis
Introduction by Sven Birkerts
Afterword by Joseph Tabbi

By William Gaddis
Introduction by Sven Birkerts
Afterword by Joseph Tabbi

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    About Agape Agape

    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.

    About Agape Agape

    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.

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    About William Gaddis

    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

    About William Gaddis

    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

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $14.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Sep 30, 2003 | 144 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780142437636

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Sep 30, 2003 | 128 Pages | ISBN 9781440650031

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    Praise

    “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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