Agape Agape (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Gaddis, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142437638 ISBN 13: 9780142437636

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2003

Synopsis

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 the Author

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 of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the recipient of a MacArthur Prize.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0142437638
• ISBN 13: 9780142437636
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144