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The Dead Father - (FSG Classics) by Donald Barthelme (Paperback)

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 192 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
  • Series Name: FSG Classics

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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."



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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




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.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.1 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: .4 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: FSG Classics
Sub-Genre: Literary
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 192
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback
Author: Donald Barthelme
Language: English
Street Date: September 15, 2004
TCIN: 90812601
UPC: 9780374529253
Item Number (DPCI): 247-45-9148
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.6 inches length x 5.4 inches width x 8.1 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.4 pounds
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