{"product_id":"2940170520923","title":"Agape Agape","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than 50 years, Gaddis collected notes for a book about the mechanization of the arts, told by way of a social history of the player piano in America. In the years before his death in 1998, he distilled the whole mass into a fiction, a dramatic monologue by an elderly man with a terminal illness. Continuing Gaddis's career amp;mdash; long reflection on those aspects of corporate technological culture that are uniquely destructive of the arts amp;mdash; \u003ci\u003eAgape Agape\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning achievement from one of the indisputable masters of postwar American fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161191760112,"sku":"2940170520923","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170520923_p0.jpg?v=1763711400","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170520923","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}