The Dead Father

The Dead Father

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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."

The Dead Father,Donald Barthelme,Donald Antrim,Farrar, Straus and Giroux,0374529256,Barthelme, Donald - Prose & Criticism,Death,Fatherhood,Fathers,Fathers and sons,Fiction,Fiction - General,Literary,Fiction / Literary

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