Description
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, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 09/15/2004
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780374529253
ISBN10: 0374529256
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | American | 21st Century
About the Author
Donald Barthelme was one of the most influential American novelists of the 1970s and 1980s, bringing a unique postmodern voice to his novels, short stories, and essays. He died in 1989.
Donald Antrim is the author of three novels, including The Verificationist.This title is not returnable