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Hints and guesses : William Gaddis's fiction of longing

The author of four truly important novels - The Recognitions in 1955, J R in 1975, Carpenter's Gothic in 1985, and A Frolic of His Own in 1995 - William Gaddis is considered by many literary scholars to be one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth century, to be spoken of in the same breath as James Joyce, Robert Musil, and Thomas Pynchon
Print Book, English, ©1997
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., ©1997