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Agape Agape Paperback - 2003
by William Gaddis; Introduction by Sven Birkerts; Afterword by Joseph Tabbi
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.
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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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- Title Agape Agape
- Author William Gaddis; Introduction by Sven Birkerts; Afterword by Joseph Tabbi
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, London
- Date September 30, 2003
- ISBN 9780142437636 / 0142437638
- Weight 0.26 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 7.86 x 5.06 x 0.36 in (19.96 x 12.85 x 0.91 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004268880
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"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)
"Gaddis's final novel is perhaps his most poignant." (Los Angeles Times)
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