{"product_id":"letters-of-william-gaddis-revised-edition","title":"Letters of William Gaddis: Revised Edition","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eLetters of William Gaddis: Revised Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eWilliam Gaddis\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781681375830\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNYRB Classics\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2023\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revelatory collection of correspondence by the lauded author of titanic American classics such as \u003ci\u003eThe Recognitions \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJ R, \u003c\/i\u003eshedding light on his staunchly private life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eUPDATED WITH OVER TWO DOZEN NEW LETTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation. Beginning in 1930 when Gaddis was at boarding school and ending in September 1998, a few months before his death, these letters function as a kind of autobiography, and also reveal the extent to which he drew upon events in his life for his fiction. Here we see him forging his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Recognitions\u003c\/i\u003e (1955), while living in Mexico, fighting in a revolution in Costa Rica, and working in Spain, France, and North Africa. Over the next twenty years he struggles to find time to write the National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eJ R\u003c\/i\u003e (1975) amid the complications of work and family; deals with divorce and disillusionment before reviving his career with \u003ci\u003eCarpenter's Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e (1985); then teaches himself enough about the law to produce \u003ci\u003eA Frolic of His Own \u003c\/i\u003e(1994). Resuming his lifelong obsession with mechanization and the arts, he finishes a last novel, \u003ci\u003eAgapē Agape\u003c\/i\u003e (published in 2002), as he lies dying. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis newly revised edition includes clarifying notes by Gaddis scholar Steven Moore, as well as an afterword by the author's daughter, Sarah Gaddis.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Letters of William Gaddis: Revised Edition | William Gaddis | Paperback | 9781681375830 | New | Letters \u0026 Diaries 1536631","offer_id":50575423963394,"sku":"1536631","price":43.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61rfRHY_oXL.jpg?v=1790881729","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/letters-of-william-gaddis-revised-edition","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}