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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 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 entri...

The most recent novel by the noted American novelist Gilbert Sorrentino.

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 alphabet, as well as to reflect upon the workings of the imagination, particularly in the art of William Carlos Williams and Arthur Rimbaud. Remin...

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

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

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 his son, and a grandmother whose aggression crescendos to a daily beating, Red can only escape by turning his hatred outward, by being as cruel and bitter as his young life has been.

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A new volume of selected poetry by the well-known American fiction writer and poet.

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The final novel from the postmodern American master.

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

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