{"product_id":"agape-agape-william-gaddis-9780142437636","title":"Agape Agape","description":"William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas. For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a book about the mechanization of the arts, told by way of a social history of the player piano in America. In the years before his death in 1998, he distilled the whole mass into a fiction, a dramatic monologue by an elderly man with a terminal illness. Continuing Gaddis's career-long reflection on those aspects of corporate technological culture that are uniquely destructive of the arts, \u003ci\u003eAgape Agape\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning achievement from one of the indisputable masters of postwar American fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Gaddis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0142437638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780142437636\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.86h x 5.06w x 0.36d","brand":"William Gaddis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047732113663,"sku":"9780142437636","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3e17d659-afa1-442a-ad47-5dad104a627d.jpg?v=1684991874","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/agape-agape-william-gaddis-9780142437636","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}