by William Gaddis · Poiseidon Press / Simon & Schuster · tapa dura · ISBN 9780671669843
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«A Frolic of His Own» is the satirical novel by William Gaddis, published by Simon & Schuster in hardcover (586 pages, in English).
The novel offers a mordant satire of the American legal system and litigation culture. The protagonist, Oscar Crease, a university professor and playwright, sues a Hollywood production company for the alleged plagiarism of a work of his authorship, while other trials and bureaucratic entanglements portray the absurdity of justice and the weight of money.
Winner of the 1994 National Book Award in fiction and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award the same year.
For readers of literary fiction and social satire, including university audiences, and for those interested in contemporary American narrative and award-winning works.
William Thomas Gaddis Jr. was an American novelist. The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 and two others, J R and A Frolic of His Own, won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. A collection of his essays was published posthumously as The Rush for Second Place (2002). The Letters of William Gaddis was published by Dalkey Archive Press in February 2013.
