About the Book

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.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 128 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin Books (Sep. 30th, 2003)

ISBN-10: 0142437638

ISBN-13: 9780142437636

Dimensions: 5.06 x 7.86 x 0.36 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.26 lbs

• Categories: Literary Fiction and Literature