{"product_id":"agape-agape-paperback","title":"Agape Agape - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam Gaddis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSven Birkerts\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eJoseph Tabbi\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam 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, \u003ci\u003eAgape Agape\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning achievement from one of the indisputable masters of postwar American fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Gaddis (1922-1998) was a master of the American novel who was frequently compared with Joyce, Nabokov, and Pynchon. Two of his novels, \u003cb\u003eJ R\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eA Frolic of His Own\u003c\/b\u003e, won the National Book Award. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the recipient of a MacArthur Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.36 x 7.86 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53183991218539,"sku":"9780142437636","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8401\/2907\/files\/0b4faf36ed5f5375b5a0492ce4cdba8c.webp?v=1778096123","url":"https:\/\/fraulick.com\/products\/agape-agape-paperback","provider":"frauLick.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}