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Under the Shadow
Häftad, 1991
191 kr
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"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 a set of people and incidents derived largely from fragments of conversation and gossip gathered here and …
Crystal Vision
Häftad, 1999
168 kr
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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 …
Aberration of Starlight
Häftad, 1993
164 kr
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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 and sex while on vacation from Brooklyn and the Depression. Billy Recco, an eager ten-year-old in search of a …
Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
Häftad, 2007
204 kr
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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 best of Sorrentino's novels, Imaginative Qualities is also, quite simply, the best American novel ever written …
Abyss of Human Illusion
Häftad, 2010
156 kr
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“To the novel—everyone’s novel—Sorrentino brings honor, tradition, and relentless passion.”—Don DeLillo“Sorrentino [is] a writer like no other. He’s learned, companionable, ribald, brave, mathematical, at once virtuosic and somehow without ego. Sorrentino’s books break free of the routine that …
Abyss of Human Illusion
A Novel
E-bok, 2012
209 kr
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“This fine, final work by Brooklyn native Sorrentino . . . finds a rueful charm in the ‘wretched clichés’ of ordinary failure.” —Publishers Weekly Titled after a line from Henry James, Gilbert Sorrentino’s final novel consists of fifty narrative set pieces full of savage humor and cathartic …
Strange Commonplace
E-bok, 2012
209 kr
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The author of Mulligan Stew presents “a savage, baffling and beguiling novel about the wreckage that infidelity leaves behind” ( Kirkus Reviews ). Borrowing its title from a William Carlos Williams poem, A Strange Commonplace lays bare the secrets and dreams of characters whose lives are …
Little Casino
A Novel
E-bok, 2012
213 kr
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An episodic novel of postwar working-class Brooklyn that offers “sometimes dreamy, sometimes gritty glimpses into ordinary lives” (Publishers Weekly). In a novel composed of fragments of memory, Gilbert Sorrentino captures the unconventional nuances of a conventional world. A masterful collage of …
Moon in Its Flight
E-bok, 2012
209 kr
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“Gilbert Sorrentino has long been one of our most intelligent and daring writers. But he is also one of our funniest writers, given to Joycean flights of wordplay, punning, list-making, vulgarity and relentless self-commentary.”— The New York Times “Sorrentino’s ear for dialects and metaphor is …
Lunar Follies
E-bok, 2012
193 kr
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The two-time PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and author of Mulligan Stew paints a “clever parodic take on the contemporary art world” (Publishers Weekly). How often have you been subjected to supposed artists, art critics, or works of “art” that left you wondering what the word even means? And just who …
Mulligan Stew
Häftad, 2023
231 kr
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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 …
Mulligan Stew
E-bok, 2023
131 kr
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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 …
Steelwork : en Brooklynroman
Häftad, 2015
248 kr
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Med en serie ögonblicksbilder skildrar denna roman ett fattigt kvarter i Brooklyn, åren 1935 till 1951. Dramatiska och vardagliga episoder ur invånarnas liv tecknas mot bakgrund av depressionen, andra världskriget och inledningen på det kalla kriget. Med svart humor och djupt känd medmänsklighet …
Splendide-Hôtel
Häftad, 1984
80 kr
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Arthur Rimbaud's invented "Splendide-Hotel," "built in the chaos of ice and of the polar night," provides 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 a letter of the …
Steelwork
Häftad, 1992
172 kr
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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 the Cold War, and the Korean War. In short, colorful, dramatic episodes, the book details the collapse of a …
Pack of Lies
A Trilogy
Häftad, 1997
185 kr
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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 with a series of interrogations (we never do find out why they are being conducted) …
Sky Changes
Häftad, 1998
146 kr
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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 marriage can be rescued, The Sky Changes records the unimaginable damage they inflict upon each other in order to …
Blue Pastoral
Häftad, 2000
159 kr
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"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 clips. An unlikely hero, your good faces seem to say..."And so we meet our hero Serge "Blue" Gavotte, a modern-day Candide …
Gilbert Sorrentino/Margery Latimer/Mary Caponegro/William Gaddis, Vol. 21, No. 3
Av Gilbert Sorrentino, Margery Latimer
Häftad, 2001
107 kr
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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, Margery Latimer
Something Said
Häftad, 2001
172 kr
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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 and culture. Something Said collects in a single volume these definitive readings of such major twentieth-century …
Moon in Its Flight
Häftad, 2004
172 kr
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“Gilbert Sorrentino has long been one of our most intelligent and daring writers. But he is also one of our funniest writers, given to Joycean flights of wordplay, punning, list-making, vulgarity and relentless self-commentary.”—The New York Times“Sorrentino’s ear for dialects and metaphor is …
Lunar Follies
Häftad, 2005
142 kr
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“For decades, Gilbert Sorrentino has remained a unique figure in our literature. He reminds us that fiction lives because artists make it. . . . To the novel—everyone’s novel—Sorrentino brings honor, tradition and relentless passion.”—Don DeLillo“Possessing both the grace of James Joyce and the …
Strange Commonplace
Häftad, 2006
159 kr
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“Sorrentino [is] a writer like no other. He’s learned, companionable, ribald, brave, mathematical, at once virtuosic and somehow without ego. Sorrentino’s books break free of the routine that inevitably accompanies traditional narrative and through a passionate renunciation shine with an …
