false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171749249m/118351.jpg 118351 10 <div><i>The Dead Father </i>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 <i>The Dead Father</i>, 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."<br></div> 130532 1975 The Dead Father total:394|5:105|4:141|3:111|2:27|1:10| 394 1486 611 43 5 1 false false Tue Mar 03 21:49:10 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 28 14:14:02 -0700 2009 The Dead Father is the story of your everyday, average funeral procession for a 200 foot tall father figure who's bloodlust and libido have not been quelled by death. Barthelme comically relates the influence that Greco-Roman and Judao-Christian traditions have had on literature and life in the occi...

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I suppose it's blatantly "postmodern" -- by golly, what better time to write a postmodern work than the 1970s? Of course, if you're not a fan o...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 13:02:35 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 12:20:52 -0700 2009
Most of the book, I thought was a 3-star deal, mainly because I found some of the sections (particularly the long moments when Emma and Julie talked to each other) to be borderline incomprehensible, and while I'm sure Barthelme knew...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Aug 28 16:57:20 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 16:59:13 -0700 2008 3 1 false false Wed May 09 16:44:46 -0700 2007 Mon May 14 22:29:36 -0700 2007 5 1 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 12:38:13 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 16:05:39 -0700 2008
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Oh yes, Thomas said, he has something. I would not dream of denying it.

Authority. Fragile, yet present. He is like a bubble you do not wish to burst.

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