The dead father / Donald Barthelme ; [introduction by Donald Antrim].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barthelme, Donald.

Contributor:

Antrim, Donald.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

FSG classics

FSG classsics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathers and sons--Fiction.

Fathers and sons.

Fathers--Death--Fiction.

Fathers.

Fathers--Death.

Fatherhood--Fiction.

Fatherhood.

Genre:

Fiction.

Experimental fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 177 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

Summary:

"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."

ISBN:

0374529256

9780374529253

OCLC:

54844220

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