The Dead Father - Couverture souple

Barthelme, Donald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0374529256 ISBN 13 : 9780374529253

Editeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004

Synopsis

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."

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Donald Barthelme was a longtime contributor to The New Yorker, winner of a National Book Award, a director of PEN and the Authors Guild, and a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His sixteen books-including Snow White, The Dead Father, and City Life-substantially redefined American short fiction for our time.

Donald Antrim is the critically acclaimed author of Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Hundred Brothers, and The Verificationist, as well The Afterlife, a memoir about his mother. A regular contributor to The New Yorker, he has also been the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Public Library. He lives in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374529256
• ISBN 13: 9780374529253
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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