Carpenter's Gothic - Tapa blanda

'Everything in this compelling and brilliant vision of America ... is charged with the force of a volcanic eruption.' Walter AbishThis romping comic narrative features the occupants of 'Carpenters Gothic', and their tempestuous marriage.Liz the heiress and herVietnam vet husband Paul , who rent from the mysterious yet omnipresent MacCandless.It follows their fantastic exploits as they battle with the Reverend Ude to preserve the African mission they live on.Thisis a comic novel that descends into hilarious farce.

WILLIAM GADDIS (1922-98) was one of the greatest writers in twentieth-century America.He wrote five novels and won two National Book Awards, for JR (1976) and for A Frolic of His Own (1995).His other landmark novels include: The Recognitions (1955) and Carpenter's Gothic (1985).Agape Agape was published by Atlantic in 2002.