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Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis
By Tabbi, Joseph
- ISBN
- 9780810131422 9780810131439
- Publisher
- Northwestern Univ.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2015 | Arts and Humanities
Whereas most of the previous monographs on the American novelist William Gaddis (1922–98) have focused on close readings of his novels, Tabbi (English, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago; Cognitive Fictions) furnishes the first book-length biography of the author. Because the semireclusive Gaddis rarely granted interviews, Tabbi draws his material primarily from Gaddis's papers, housed at Washington University. Much of the narrative focuses ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
