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Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things

2007 Fiction
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Release : 2007
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 704/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things by : Gilbert Sorrentino

Download or read book Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things written by Gilbert Sorrentino. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gilbert Sorrentino's third novel is about the New York artistic and literary world of the 1950s and '60s, specifically the artists, writers, hangers-on, and the phonies who populated that world. In a prose that is ruthless as well as possessed of an enormous comic verve, the dedicated, the stupid, the rapacious, and the foolish are dissected. Eight major characters, many of whom reappear in Sorrentino's later novels, are employed to allow the reader a variety of views of the same world. Told in the weary voice of a cynical and sardonic narrator, the novel is crammed with fantastic characters, incidents, and episodes, and moves from wit and satire through elegiac brooding, to bitter invective. It is a superb re-creation of a real time and place."--Publisher description.

Mulligan Stew

1996 Fiction
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Release : 1996
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 874/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Mulligan Stew by : Gilbert Sorrentino

Download or read book Mulligan Stew written by Gilbert Sorrentino. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as Sorrentino's finest achievement, Mulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to write a "new wave murder mystery," his frustrating emotional and sexual life wreaks havoc on his work-in-progress. As a result, his narrative (the very book we are reading) turns into a literary "stew": an uproariously funny melange of journal entries, erotic poetry, parodies of all kinds, love letters, interviews, and lists -- as Hugh Kenner in Harper's wrote, "for another such virtuoso of the List you'd have to resurrect Joyce." Soon, Lamont's characters (on loan from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flann O'Brien, James Joyce, and Dashiell Hammet) take on lives of their own, completely sabotaging his narrative. Sorrentino has vastly extended the possibilities of what a novel can be in this extraordinary work, which both parodies and pays homage to the art of fiction.

Red the Fiend

2006 Fiction
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Release : 2006
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 520/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Red the Fiend by : Gilbert Sorrentino

Download or read book Red the Fiend written by Gilbert Sorrentino. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recasting of Sorrentino's Aberration of Starlight, this is the story of how a child becomes a monster: of how Red the boy becomes Red the Fiend. With an absent father who turns up only to drunkenly berate his son, and a grandmother whose aggression crescendos to a daily beating, Red can only escape by turning his hatred outward, by being as cruel and bitter as his young life has been. Employing direct, elegant sentences, while retaining his characteristic formal inventiveness, Sorrentino evokes this unyieldingly grim Brooklyn boyhood, describing close, familial conflicts that deepen and widen to reflect the hardships of Depression-era life.

Gilbert Sorrentino

1991 Fiction
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Release : 1991
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 675/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Gilbert Sorrentino by : William McPheron

Download or read book Gilbert Sorrentino written by William McPheron. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trajectory of Gilbert Sorrentino's literary life can be tracked in this bibliography, from his first short story in a 1956 issue of his college literary magazine, through his involvement with the New York publishing scene in the 1960s and 1970s, and finally into the 1980s and early 1990, when his work, as at the beginning, once again is being published by small presses. The bibliography treats writings both by and about Sorrentino, uniting in one volume exhaustive descriptive analyses of primary works with annotated treatment of secondary sources. It thereby serves the needs not only of scholars and collectors interested in the physical production of Sorrentino's books but also of literary critics concerned with matters of reception and interpretation.

Gold Fools

2001 Fiction
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Release : 2001
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Gold Fools by : Gilbert Sorrentino

Download or read book Gold Fools written by Gilbert Sorrentino. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most recent novel by the noted American novelist Gilbert Sorrentino.

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