{"product_id":"agape-agape-isbn-9780142437636","title":"Agape Agape","description":"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, \u003ci\u003eAgape Agape\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning achievement from one of the indisputable masters of postwar American fiction.\"An exalted, paranoid outcry, a last wounded proclamation of the idea of the sacred rootedness of true art.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gaddis's final novel is perhaps his most poignant.\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\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.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303799148773,"sku":"NP9780142437636","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142437636.jpg?v=1767721138","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/agape-agape-isbn-9780142437636","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}