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Agape Agape
Author: William Gaddis
Narrator: Nick Sullivan
Unabridged: 3 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Published: 10/30/2018
Category: Fiction - Literary
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."An exalted, paranoid outcry, a last wounded proclamation of the idea of the sacred rootedness of true art." -New York Times Book Review