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.
- ISBN:
- 9780464853572
- 9780464853572
- Category:
- Contemporary fiction
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 23-05-2019
- Publisher:
- Blurb
- Pages:
- 154
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x9mm
- Weight:
- 0.24kg
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