false 7769723 363264 118351 0374529256 9780374529253 37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171749249m/118351.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171749249s/118351.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118351.The_Dead_Father 3.79 369 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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