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The Dead Father (Contemporary American Fiction) Book

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."Read More

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  • 0140086676
  • 9780140086676
  • Donald Barthelme
  • 1 May 1986
  • Penguin USA (P)
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 192
  • Reprint
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