The Dead Father

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
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 09/15/2004
Series: FSG Classics
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780374529253
Language: English

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