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Carpenter's Gothic – Gaddis William – Pollen press – 2021 – ISBN 978-5-902810-04-9

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Carpenter's Gothic (1985) is the third, chamber fugue novel by American writer William Gaddis (1922–1998). The title of this compact novel, by the standards of the author's previous works, reflects the name of an architectural fashion common in the American South: wooden "imitations" of Victorian stone mansions. The action of Carpenter's Gothic takes place almost entirely within such a house, but, as Cynthia Ozick noted in her insightful review, "Gaddis is like a deluge"; the writer, working within an artificially limited space, compensates for the lack of artistic scope with a virtuoso command of all the nuances and registers of the English language, satire, and the tension created by the almost continuous dialogue of people unable to resist their own egotism and the simulacra of the world around them. In 1986, Carpenter's Gothic was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award.

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