Ralph Cusack Gilbert Sorrentino Gilbert Sorrentino
First published in Ireland in 1958, this fantastic excursion of the mind, which moves between Dublin and Dundalk on a train headed for the scrap heap after fifty years, also reminds the reader of Tristram Shandy, Finnegans Wake, Ulysses, and At Swim-Two-Birds. But while Leopold Bloom is peripatetic in his Dublin Odyssey, Cusack's Desmond locks himself in train carriage 304D and orders out sandwiches, whiskey, and beer. A brilliant tour de force melding time, place, and memory.
First published in Ireland in 1958, this fantastic excursion of the mind, which moves between Dublin and Dundalk on a train headed for the scrap heap ...
Divorce in America is the subject of Gilbert Sorrentino's relentlessly disturbing first novel. Tracing the New York-to-San Francisco journey of a family as the husband and wife try to maintain the illusion that the marriage can be rescued, ?"The Sky Changes"?records the imaginable damage they inflict upon each other in order to force themselves towards divorce. Along the way, their two children become victims of the parents' failures and are dragged throughout the torment of this disintegrating marriage.
No other novel in American literature is so narrowly dedicated to recording close-up...
Divorce in America is the subject of Gilbert Sorrentino's relentlessly disturbing first novel. Tracing the New York-to-San Francisco journey of a f...
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
David Andrews, Gilbert Sorrentino David Andrews, The Art Is the Act of Smashing the Mirror: A Conversation with Gilbert Sorrentino John Beer, Robert L...
