The Dead Father

The book ‘The Dead Father’ is written by Donald Barthelme. ‘The Dead Father’ is a post-modernist novel, it was published in 1975 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The story comes about a group of characters who drag the physical manifestation of their dead father across various landscapes. Along the way, the novel analyzes deep themes while maintaining Barthelme’s signature wordplay, irony, and absurdist humor.