Aberration of Starlight

In a rural New Jersey boardinghouse, in 1939, ten-year-old Billy Recco, his divorced mother, her bitter, widowed father, and philanderer Tom Thebus are caught up in familial and sexual strife

SORRENTINO, GILBERT

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

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 of their Brooklyn neighborhood to gossip, insult, lust, brag, and argue. In a series of seventy-eight short narratives, Gilbert Sorrentino perfectly captures the speech, illusions, and confusion of The Magician, Ritchie, The Arab, Irish Billy, Big Duck, Doc Friday, Fat Frankie, and many others. Through formal inventiveness, Sorrentino liberates these characters from the confines of realism and gives us their world--zany, vulgar, hilarious, and exuberant.

Crystal Vision

Series; University of Texas Press poetry series ; no. 3. Physical description; 86 p. ; 19 cm. Subjects; Sonnets, American. Poetry in English - American writers - (1945-) - Texts.

The Orangery (The University of Texas Press Poetry Series: Number 3)

History & Criticism

University of Texas Press

The orangery (The University of Texas Press poetry series ; no. 3)

Poetry

Mulligan Stew

GROVE PRESS

paperback of Sorrentino's classic early novel

Steelwork

Pantheon Books

paperback edition of early 70s classic

Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things

Humor & Satire

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.

Mulligan Stew: A Novel

United States

Random House]

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.

Riverrun Press

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Aberration of Starlight

Crystal Vision

The Orangery (The University of Texas Press Poetry Series: Number 3)

The orangery (The University of Texas Press poetry series ; no. 3)

Mulligan Stew

Steelwork

Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things

Mulligan Stew: A Novel

Aberration of Starlight

Mulligan Stew