The Letters of William Gaddis
by William Gaddis, Steven Moore, Sarah Gaddis
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- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Author: William Gaddis, Steven Moore, Sarah Gaddis
- Format: hardcover, 600 pages
- ISBN: 9781564788047 (1564788040)
- Language: english
- Release date: March 7, 2013
- Genres: memoir, american, biography, criticism
About The Book
Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis (1922-98) 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 are all the more valuable because Gaddis was not an autobiographical writer.
Here we see him forging his first novel The Recognitions (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 J R (1975) amid the complications of work and family; deals with divorce and disillusionment before reviving his career with Carpenter ‘s Gothic (1985); then teaches himself enough about the law to indite A Frolic of His Own (1994), which earned him another NBA. Returning to a topic he first wrote about in the 1940s, he finishes his last novel Agape Agape as he lay dying.
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