The Dead Father

Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Author: Donald Barthelme ISBN: 9781466857308
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: May 6, 2014
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: Donald Barthelme
ISBN: 9781466857308
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: May 6, 2014
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

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 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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