Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World System

by Jeff Bursey

Book Overview

Celebrates and illuminates the legacy of one of America's most innovative and consequential 20th century novelists

In 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis's collected nonfiction and his final novel and Jonathan Franzen's lengthy attack on him in The New Yorker, a number of partisan articles appeared in support of Gaddis's legacy. In a review in The London Review of Books, critic Hal Foster suggested a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817354069
• ISBN13: 9780817354060
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.9" x 8.9"