Agape Agape - Paperback

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.

• | Author: William Gaddis
• | Publisher: Penguin Classics
• | Publication Date: Sep 30, 2003
• | Number of Pages: 144 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0142437638
• | ISBN-13: 9780142437636