Like William Faulkner and John Barth, Gaddis refers unabashedly to his previous works or characters in Carpen-ter's Gothic. The story line, and even some of the names (Ude and Teakell, for example) come from J R (one reviewer has said that the main plot of Carpenter's Gothic comes from seven pages.....
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