Gadsby: A Lipogram Novel - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9781773238272

About this item

by Ernest Vincent Wright (Author)

Wright spent five and a half months writing Gadsby on a typewriter with the "e" key tied down so that it couldn't be used at all. A warehouse holding copies of Gadsby burned shortly after the book was printed, destroying most copies of the ill-fated novel. The book was never reviewed and only kept alive by the efforts of a few avant-garde intellos and assorted connoisseurs of the odd, weird and zany. But by word-of-mouth it has become an underground cult classic. The book's scarcity and oddness has in the past seen copies priced at $4,000 by book dealers. Over time, this peculiar masterpiece has had many curious readers open to this interestingly unusual reading experience.

Number of Pages: 154

Dimensions: 0.36 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN

Publication Date: March 11, 2022

$19.36

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