The Dead Father (Contemporary American Fiction) - Softcover

Barthelme, Donald

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9780140086676: The Dead Father (Contemporary American Fiction)

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ISBN 10: 0140086676 ISBN 13: 9780140086676

Publisher: Penguin, 1986

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The half-dead, half-alive, part-mechanical, all-powerful Dead Father, inexhaustible source of the city's life, law, and order, is dragged by nineteen fervent volunteers, across a surreal landscape toward an anticipated revitalization

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"The funniest and most effective things in "The Dead Father" are accomplished by language, by the writing itself . . . Essential reading." --Jerome Klinkowitz, "The New Republic"
"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." --from the introduction by Donald Antrim

The funniest and most effective things in "The Dead Father" are accomplished by language, by the writing itself . . . Essential reading. "Jerome Klinkowitz, The New Republic"

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. "from the introduction by Donald Antrim""

"The funniest and most effective things in The Dead Father are accomplished by language, by the writing itself . . . Essential reading." --Jerome Klinkowitz, The New Republic

"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." --from the introduction by Donald Antrim

About the Author:

Donald Barthelme was one of the most influential American novelists of the 1970s and 1980s, bringing a unique postmodern voice to his novels, short stories, and essays. He died in 1989.

Donald Antrim is the author of three novels, including The Verificationist.

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