{"product_id":"9781440650031","title":"Agape Agape","description":"William 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. For more than fifty 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-long reflection on those aspects of corporate technological culture that are uniquely destructive of the arts, \u003ci\u003eAgape Agape\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning achievement from one of the indisputable masters of postwar American fiction.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157271888112,"sku":"9781440650031","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781440650031_p0.jpg?v=1763791532","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781440650031","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}