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      Mulligan Stew

      Gilbert Sorrentino

      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…

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      Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things

      Gilbert Sorrentino

      Wildly comic and bitterly satiric, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things is Gilbert Sorrentino’s ruthless, and timeless, attack on the New York art world of the 1950s and ‘60s. Among the…

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      Splendide-Hotel

      Gilbert Sorrentino

      Arthur Rimbaud’s invented Splendide-Hotel, built in the chaos of ice and of the polar night, provides the occasion for Gilbert Sorrentino’s imaginative meditation on letters and language.

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      Pack of Lies: A Trilogy

      Gilbert Sorrentino

      Gilbert Sorrentino is one of the most accomplished innovators in twentieth-century fiction, a position that is everywhere confirmed in this trilogy of novels, Odd Number, Rose Theatre, and Misterioso. Beginning…

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      Something Said

      Gilbert Sorrentino

      For over four decades, Gilbert Sorrentino has produced brilliant, penetrating essays and reviews, each one an uncompromising statement of what is good - and what is not - in literature…

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      Aberration of Starlight

      Gilbert Sorrentino

      Set at a boardinghouse in rural New Jersey in the summer of 1939, this novel revolves around four people who experience the comedies, torments and rare pleasures of family, romance…

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      A Strange Commonplace

      Gilbert Sorrentino

      An unsettling, masterful novel of lives distorted in a funhouse mirror of inexplicable coincidences.

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      Red the Fiend

      Gilbert Sorrentino

      Presents 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…

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      Under the Shadow

      Gilbert Sorrentino

      Under the Shadow ?takes the form of fifty-nine brief sketches with simple nouns as titles. These exquisite vignettes take place on a plane at once surreal, abstract, and ominous, describing…

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      Little Casino

      Gilbert Sorrentino

      These episodes from a Brooklyn long gone astonish with their penetrating, subtle detail.

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      The Moon in Its Flight

      Gilbert Sorrentino

      A series of miniature masterpieces sealing Gilbert Sorrentino’s reputation as the master of American avant-garde fiction.

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      Lunar Follies

      Gilbert Sorrentino

      A richly entertaining journey through the vagaries of the art world, narrated by an acutely insightful raconteur.

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      Steelwork

      Gilbert Sorrentino

      Like a series of snapshots, this novel presents a picture of a particular Brooklyn neighborhood between the years 1935 and 1951, covering the Depression, World War II, the beginnings of…

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      Crystal Vision

      Gilbert Sorrentino

      Both comic and haunting, ? Crystal Vision ?invokes the world of magic and the arcane as filtered through a group of characters gathered on the streets and in the stores…

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      Sky Changes

      Gilbert Sorrentino

      Divorce in America is the subject of Gilbert Sorrentino’s novel. Tracing the New York-to-San Francisco journey of a family as husband and wife try to maintain the illusion that their…

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      Blue Pastoral

      Gilbert Sorrentino

      I see him now! Somewhere out there in that gloaming that we call the Past that Time forgot–his ratty beard and frizzy hair, his hearty grease sandwiches, his rusted bicycle…

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      Fact, Fiction, and Representation: Four Novels by Gilbert Sorrentino

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      A full-length study of four works by Gilbert Sorrentino, the contemporary American novelist.

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      The Abyss of Human Illusion

      Gilbert Sorrentino

      The final novel from the postmodern American master.

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      Gilbert Sorrentino/Margery Latimer/Mary Caponegro/William Gaddis, Vol. 21, No. 3

      Gilbert Sorrentino,Margery Latimer

      David Andrews, Gilbert Sorrentino David Andrews, The Art Is the Act of Smashing the Mirror: A Conversation with Gilbert Sorrentino John Beer, Robert L. McLaughlin, Mary CaponegroWilliam Gaddis Joy Castro…

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      Cadenza

      Ralph Cusack

      Like Melies’s film The Hallucinations of Baron Munchausen, Ralph Cusack’s Cadenza gives us a hero, Desmond, who finds himself caught between two worlds, the night before and the morning after…

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      Splendide-H?tel

      Sorrentino Gilbert

      Aims to provide the occasion for Sorrentino’s imaginative meditation on letters and language. Each chapter serves as an opportunity for the author to expand on thoughts and images suggested by…

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      Collected Fiction

      Professor Louis Zukofsky,Paul Zukofsky

      Best known as one of the most significant poets of the 20th century, Louis Zukofsky was also an accomplished writer of fiction, all of which is collected here for the…

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