In Partial Disgrace (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781564788160)

The long-awaited final work and magnum opus of one of the United States's greatest authors, critics, and tastemakers, In Partial Disgrace is a sprawling self-contained trilogy chronicling the troubled history of a small Central European nation bearing certain similarities to Hungary--and whose rise and fall might be said to parallel the strange contortions taken by Western political and literary thought over the course of the twentieth century. More than twenty years in the making, and containing a cast of characters, breadth of insight, and degree of stylistic legerdemain to rival such staggering achievements as William H. Gass's The Tunnel, Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra, Robert Coover's The Public Burning, or P ter N das's Parallel Lives, In Partial Disgrace may be the last great work to issue from the generation that changed American letters in the '60s and '70s.

Author: Charles Newman
ISBN-10: 1564788164
ISBN-13: 9781564788160
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2013
Pages: 337
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/11/2013