Frank Lentricchia, Author Random House (NY) $21 (182p) ISBN 978-0-679-43072-8
Lentricchia ( After the New Criticism ) here mixes autobiography, literary criticism, stream-of-consciousness prose and seemingly everything else that touches his agile mind. The result, while interesting to jaded theorists, may be indigestible for...
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Frank Lentricchia, Author Scribner Book Company $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-81408-7
Drawing on his own upbringing, novelist and critic Lentricchia (The Edge of Night, etc.) has fashioned two short novels that display a rousing capacity for language and a gritty sense of the contemporary male mind. Johnny Critelli ostensibly...
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Frank Lentricchia. Melville International Crime (Random, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-61219-171-3
Near the outset of this uneven first in a new crime series from Lentricchia (The Book of Ruth), Utica, N.Y., PI Eliot Conte, son of a New York State political kingmaker, tells his oldest friend, Antonio Robinson, he’s recently learned that the...
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Frank Lentricchia. Melville International Crime (Random, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-61219-337-3
Lentricchia’s fast-paced if somewhat mild follow-up to The Accidental Pallbearer finds retired Utica, N.Y., PI Eliot Conte living on an inheritance, with time to indulge his passion for opera and teach a college course in English literature. Things...
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Frank Lentricchia, Author, Jody McAuliffe, Author . Univ. of Chicago $22.50 (200p) ISBN 978-0-226-47205-8
Following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center two years ago, no statement caused more anger than composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's description of it as "the greatest work of art that is possible in the whole cosmos," something &
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Frank Lentricchia, Author, Frank Lentricchia, Author, Lentricchia, Author Duke University Press $34.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8223-2654-0
Few literary critics succeed at fiction, which operates under different rules than argument-driven criticism. But like Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson, Lentricchia, a star in the galaxy of cultural theory (After the New Criticism), tries to make...
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