Agape Agape by William Gaddis

Agape Agape by William Gaddis

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.

William Gaddis (1922-1998) is widely regarded as one of America's greatest writers of the twentieth century. He wrote five books throughout his career, winning two National Book Awards, a MacArthur Genius Prize, a Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, and funds from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is adored and respected for his artistic breakthroughs, unforgettable characters, all-pervasive humor, and intellectual and visionary breadth.

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ISBN 13	9780142437636
ISBN 10	0142437638
Title	Agape Agape
Author	William Gaddis
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2003-09-30
Number of pages	144
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