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The Dead Father

By Donald Barthelme , Donald Antrim

Book information

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
2004
ISBN
0374529256, 9780374529253
LCC
PS3552.A76 D4 2004
Open Library ID
OL3304518M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1638512 bytes)
Pages
81\81
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel, marked by the imaginative use of language that influenced a generation of fiction writers, Donald Barthelme offered a glimpse into his fictional universe. As Donald Antrim writes in his introduction, "Reading The Dead Father, one has the sense that its author enjoys an almost complete artistic freedom . . . a permission to reshape, misrepresent, or even ignore the world as we find it . . . Laughing along with its author, we escape anxiety and feel alive."

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