| Agape Agape Contributor(s): Gaddis, William (Author), Birkerts, Sven (Introduction by), Tabbi, Joseph (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0142437638 ISBN-13: 9780142437636 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004268880 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 5.06" W x 7.86" (0.26 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |