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'Everything in this compelling and brilliant vision of America ...is charged with the force of a volcanic eruption.' Walter AbishThis romping comic narrative features the occupants of 'Carpenters Gothic', and their tempestuous marriage.Liz the heiress and herVietnam vet husband Paul , who rent from the mysterious yet omnipresent MacCandless.It follows their fantastic exploits as they battle with the Reverend Ude to preserve the African mission they live on.Thisis a comic novel that descends into hilarious farce.
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"An unholy landmark of a novel--an extra turret added on to the ample, ingenious, audacious Gothic mansion Gaddis has been building in American letters"--Cynthia Ozick, The New York Times Book Review
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"Everything in this compelling and brilliant vision of America--the packaged sleaze, the incipient violence, the fundamentalist furor, the constricted sexuality--is charged with the force of a volcanic eruption. Carpenter's Gothic will reenergize and give shape to contemporary literature."--Walter Abish
WILLIAM GADDIS (1922-98) was one of the greatest writers in twentieth-century America.He wrote five novels and won two National Book Awards, for JR (1976) and for A Frolic of His Own (1995).His other landmark novels include: The Recognitions (1955) and Carpenter's Gothic (1985).Agape Agape was published by Atlantic in 2002.
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- PublisherAndre Deutsch Ltd
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0233979328
- ISBN 13 9780233979328
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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