Aberration of Starlight
 4 people + 1 night = a brilliant, funny, heartrending novel.: At a boardinghouse in New Jersey in 1939, four people come together: a ten-year-old boy, his mother and grandfather, and a salesman on the make. As each relates his or her own version or their [... more]
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Little Casino
An accessible book by a difficult author: Sorrentino had eluded me for almost a year. A writing teacher first introduced me to the author with, "The Moon in its Flight," and I fell in love with its metafiction (what with Sorrentino himself [... more]
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Steelwork
Author: Gilbert Sorrentino Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781564780041 Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed ISBN: 156478004X Number Of Pages: 177 Publication Date: 1992-07 [... more]
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The Moon in Its Flight
Hilarious and Touching: There are a lot of different elements, I think, in what makes these stories so delightful, and I can't say I really understand how they meld. While they can be hilarious, somehow or other the primary element isn't satire, but [... more]
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Under the Shadow
Author: Gilbert Sorrentino Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780916583934 ISBN: 0916583937 Number Of Pages: 137 Publication Date: 1993-03 [... more]
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Blue Pastoral
A Mad Romp by a Major Writer: Read the editorial notes here, all accurate; I won't repeat them. This is a great, sprawling, Rabelaisian , self-indulgent joke of a book, a wild carnival ride, a drunken festival of language, from ivory tower to gutter, and [... more]
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The Sky Changes (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Certainly, this is one of Sorrentino's best yet.: The man is nameless, yet we begin to know him personally. His sadness, his anger, and his frantic attempts to salvalge a marriage damaged beyond repair are emotions apparent in the pages of the book, The [... more]
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Pack of Lies (American Literature Series)
Author: Gilbert Sorrentino Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781564781543 ISBN: 1564781542 Number Of Pages: 564 Publication Date: 1997-06 [... more]
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Red the Fiend
Sorrentino wallops The Waltons: This novel definitely destroys the sappy Waltons-style familial myths that dominate so many books and movies about the Depression. Sorrentino captures the self-destructiveness of his novel's unhappy, uneducated, unloved [... more]
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Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
So here I am, writing a review of Sorrentino...: At its best, this book is really, really mean. Sorrentino has a great eye for some of the most crapulent cliches of American intellectual life, and the characters he sketches here are their embodiments. [... more]
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A Strange Commonplace
Reality in metafiction: This book quickly reminded me of a childhood experience - what I thought was an accidental drowning, I later discovered my older brother believed to be suicide and my Mother believed to be murder. Sorrentino has captured that [... more]
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Something Said (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Lucid, stringent criticism: I wish someone like Sorrentino were writing today in publications like "The New York Times Book Review." Many of the essays in this book are short reviews, of a page or two. A few are slightly longer essays on key [... more]
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