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Nobody Grew but the Business
Joseph Tabbi
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Description for Nobody Grew but the Business
Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 599.
During his lifetime, William Gaddis (1922–1998) evaded biographical questions, never read from his work publicly, and didn’t allow his photograph to appear on his books. Before his novel J R (1975) won Gaddis the National Book Award and some measure of renown, he had given up the bohemian world of 1950s Greenwich Village for a series of corporate jobs that both paid the bills and provided an inside view of the encroachment of market values into every corner of American culture.
By illustrating the interconnectedness of Gaddis’s life and work, Tabbi, among his foremost interpreters, demystifies the “difficult author” ... Read more
During his lifetime, William Gaddis (1922–1998) evaded biographical questions, never read from his work publicly, and didn’t allow his photograph to appear on his books. Before his novel J R (1975) won Gaddis the National Book Award and some measure of renown, he had given up the bohemian world of 1950s Greenwich Village for a series of corporate jobs that both paid the bills and provided an inside view of the encroachment of market values into every corner of American culture.
By illustrating the interconnectedness of Gaddis’s life and work, Tabbi, among his foremost interpreters, demystifies the “difficult author” ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810131422
SKU
V9780810131422
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99-3
About Joseph Tabbi
Joseph Tabbi is the author of Cognitive Fictions (2002) and Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk (1995). He edited and introduced William Gaddis’s The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings (2002), and wrote the afterword for the Penguin Classics edition of Agape, Agape (2003). The editor of the electronic book review, Tabbi is professor ... Read more
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