The Dead Father

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 09/15/2004
ISBN: 9780374529253
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Library Journal 01/15/2005 pg. 172
Library Journal 01/01/2005