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Agape Agape (Penguin Classics)

By William Gaddis

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Year
2003
ISBN
0142437638, 9780142437636
LCC
PS3557.A28 A73 2003
Open Library ID
OL17922074M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
569 kB (582453 bytes)
Pages
73\73
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

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.

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