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"[T]he presiding genius of postwar American fiction" -The New York Times
First published in 1955 and considered one of the most profound works of fiction of this century, The Recognitions tells the story of a painter-counterfeiter who forges out of love, not larceny, in an age when the fakes have become indistinguishable from the real.
'William Gaddis is pure prodigy. he has a fantastic ear for American speech with the strictest attention and exactitude such an ear demands but, strangely crossed with that, the wildest of imaginations . . . His novels are massive in ambition and dazzling in execution.' - Mary McCarthy'Brilliant . . . Triumphantly succeeds in its effort to make forgery and fraud in the art world stand for the larger frauds . . . in the great world.' - The New York Times Book Review
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