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J R by William Gaddis
$49.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
At the center of J R is J R Vansant, a very average sixth grader from Long Island with torn sneakers, a runny nose, and a juvenile fascination with junk mail get-rich-quick offers. Responding to one, he sees a small return; soon, he is a running a massive Ponzi scheme out a phone booth in the school hal ...Show more
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate 'originals' - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have ...Show more
The Recognitions by William Gaddis; Tom McCarthy (Introduction by); William H. Gass (Afterword by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most venerated novelists of the last century. The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world. The book is a masquerade, moving fr ...Show more
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
$34.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive)
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the ur-text of postwar ction and the rst great cultural critique, which, even if Heller and Pynchon hadn t read it while composing Catch-22 and V., managed to anticipate the spirit of both The Recognitions is a masterwork about art and forgery, and the increasingly thin ...Show more
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