Aberration of Starlight

Gilbert Sorrentino. Dalkey Archive Press, $11.95 (211pp) ISBN 978-1-56478-028-7

The daring format devised by poet-novelist Sorrentino creates striking effects here, helping him to bare the realities behind the postures of vacationers at a New Jersey resort during the 1930s. (July)

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