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WilliaM gaddis
1922 – 1998, american
Agapē Agape
Afterword by Joseph Tabbi
William Gaddis’s final work of fiction
is a subtle, concentrated culmination of
his art and ideas, revealed through the
thoughts of an interminably ill, elderly
protagonist. This staggering monologue is,
ultimately, Gaddis’s own tirade against a
technological culture and the consequent
death of the arts.
128 pp. 978-0-14-243763-6 $13.00
Carpenter’s Gothic
This story of raging comedy and despair
centers on the tempestuous marriage of an
heiress and a Vietnam veteran.
272 pp. 978-0-14-118222-3 $16.00
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Introduction by Frederick R. Karl
Winner of the National Book Award
The hero of this novel of epic comedy
and satire is an eleven-year-old capitalist
who parlays Navy surplus forks and some
defaulted bonds into a vast empire of free
enterprise.
752 pp. 978-0-14-018707-6 $25.00
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The Recognitions
Introduction by William H. Gass
First published in 1955 and considered
one of the most profound works of fiction
of this century, The Recognitions tells the
story of a painter-counterfeiter who forges
out of love, not larceny, in an age when
the fakes have become indistinguishable
from the real.
976 pp. 978-0-14-018708-3 $25.00
benito Pérez galdÓs
1843 – 1920, spanish
Fortunata and Jacinta
Two Stories of Married Women
Translated with an Introduction by
Agnes Moncy Gullón
From the Dickens of Spain, this story
of two women in love with the same
man is the greatest Spanish novel of the
nineteenth century.
848 pp. 978-0-14-043305-0 $20.00
s. M. Celeste galilei
1600 – 1634, italian (b. Padua)
Letters to Father
Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623–1633
Translated and Annotated by Dava Sobel
Placed in a convent at the age of thirteen
(where she was renamed Suor Maria
Celeste), Virginia Galilei, Galileo’s eldest
daughter, wrote to her father continually.
The letters span a dramatic decade that
included the Thirty Years’ War, the
bubonic plague, and the development
of Galileo’s own universe-changing
discoveries, but though they touch on
these events, the letters mostly focus on
the details of everyday life that connect
this fascinating father and daughter. All
124 surviving letters are here translated
into English.
208 pp. 978-0-14-243715-5 $14.00