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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- | Publication Date: Jan 01, 1900
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- | ISBN-13: 9780142437636
- | ISBN-10: 0142437638
- Author:
- NA
- Publisher:
- Not Stated
- Publication Date:
- Jan 01, 1900
- Binding:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN-13:
- 9780142437636
- ISBN10:
- 0142437638