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Agape Agape
by Gaddis, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0670031313
- ISBN 13
- 9780670031313
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670031313 . "Agape Agape continues Gaddis's career-long reflection via the form of the novel on those aspects of the corporate technological culture that are uniquely destructive of the arts." Ships same or next business day. Spine is slightly loose, small bumps and fading on spine ends; overall, book is tight, bright, and clean. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has minor edge wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 113 pages .
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Good Books In The Woods
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53208
- Title
- Agape Agape
- Author
- Gaddis, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670031313
- ISBN 13
- 9780670031313
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- 0670031313
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