Gadsby (Annotated)

Gadsby is one of the most audacious experiments in twentieth-century American fiction: a 50,000-word novel written without the letter "e." Beneath this famous lipogrammatic constraint lies a civic fable about John Gadsby, who rallies the youth of a declining town to restore public spirit, culture, and communal purpose. Its prose is necessarily inventive, sometimes eccentric, and fascinating as an ...