Overview
The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel, marked by the imaginative use of language that influenced a generation of fiction writers, Donald Barthelme offered a glimpse into his fictional universe. As Donald Antrim writes in his introduction, "Reading The Dead Father, one has the sense that its author enjoys an almost complete artistic freedom . . . a permission to reshape, misrepresent, or even ignore the world as we find it . . . Laughing along with its author, we escape anxiety and feel alive."
- | Author: Donald Barthelme
- | Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- | Publication Date: Sep 15, 2004
- | Number of Pages: 192 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0374529256
- | ISBN-13: 9780374529253
