<TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textcase="02">Letters of William Gaddis</TitleText>

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COM.ONIXSUITE.9781564788047 02 01 Dalkey Archive Press 01 GCOI 15647100244880 01 SKU 6541354384324384384 02 1564788040 03 9781564788047 15 9781564788047 BB <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textcase="02">Letters of William Gaddis</TitleText> 1 A01 Gaddis, William William Gaddis William Gaddis (1922-98) stands among the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. The winner of two National book awards (for J R [1976] and A Frolic of His Own [1995]), he wrote five novels during his lifetime, including Carpenter's Gothic (1985), Agapē Agape (published posthumously in 2002), and his early masterpiece The Recognitions (1955). He is loved and admired for his stylistic innovations, his unforgettable characters, his pervasive humor, and the breadth of his intellect and vision. 2 A19 Gaddis, Sarah Sarah Gaddis 3 B01 Moore, Steven Steven Moore Steven Moore earned his Ph.D. at Ruttgers University. He is a noted William Gaddis scholar and wrote William Gaddis, the first comprehensive critical guide to his work, and A Reader's Guide to William Gaddis's The Recognitions. Moore has edited a number of books, including Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski & Sheri Martinelli 1960-1967 and In Recognition of William Gaddis. He has also contributed essays, articles, and reviews to a number of newspapers, journals, and magazines. 01 eng 600 00 600 03 01 Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis (1922–98) shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation. Beginning in 1930 when Gaddis was at boardingschool and ending in September 1998, a few months before his death, these letters function as a kind of autobiography, and are all the more valuable because Gaddis was not an autobiographical writer. Here we see him forging his first novel The Recognitions (1955) while living in Mexico, fighting in a revolution in Costa Rica, and working in Spain, France, and North Africa. Over the next twenty years he struggles to find time to write the National Book Award-winning J R (1975) amid the complications of work and family; deals with divorce and disillusionment before reviving his career with Carpenter's Gothic (1985); then teaches himself enough about the law to indite A Frolic of His Own (1994), which earned him another NBA. Returning to a topic he first wrote about in the 1940s, he finishes his last novel Agapē Agape as he lay dying. The recipients of the letters include other writers such as Katherine Anne Porter, David Markson, William H. Gass, Stanley Elkin, Frederick Exley, Robert Coover, Robert Creeley, John Updike, Saul Bellow, and Don DeLillo, as well as friends, family, politicians, and critics. The collection is edited and annotated by Steven Moore, the leading authority on Gaddis, and concludes with an afterword by the novelist's daughter, Sarah Gaddis. 02 Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis (1922–98) shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation . . . 08 "Gaddis' letters make for remarkable, stimulating reading." Barnes and Noble Review 08 "[I]f you're a Gaddis devotee, you should definitely acquire this superbly edited collection of his letters." The Washington Post 08 "Gaddis's books actually are entertaining . . .They are funny. They are moving. They are continuously inventive, and relentless in their obsessions." The New York Times 08 "Here are the letters of the very great – and heroically ignored – literary figure" The Buffalo News 04 03 72 01 http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/resources/titles/15647100244880/images/15647100244880L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/resources/titles/15647100244880/images/15647100244880S.jpg http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/book/?GCOI=15647100244880 Dalkey Archive Press 01 Dalkey Archive Press 02 W. W. Norton & Company 01 WORLD 02 Y 20 01 02 34.50 USD