Gilbert Sorrentino, Author . Coffee House $14.95 (214p) ISBN 978-1-56689-126-4
Often poetic in its digressive excursions into the minds of postwar Brooklyn denizens, this slender novel by Sorrentino (Mulligan Stew) zooms across time and geography on a dizzy journey of names, memories and tangents. The acclaimed poet and...
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Gilbert Sorrentino, Author . Coffee House $16 (266p) ISBN 978-1-56689-152-3
This collection of new and old stories from poet and novelist Sorrentino (Mulligan Stew
) hews to a self-consciously modernist agenda. Many of the pieces are different versions of a single narrative about adulterous triangles connecting mediocre...
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Gilbert Sorrentino, Author . Coffee House $14 (145p) ISBN 978-1-56689-169-1
Readers skeptical of (but intrigued by) conceptual and installation art will enjoy this clever parodic take on the contemporary art world. In fake reviews, lists of found objects, profiles, photo captions and catalogue copy—each named for moon
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Gilbert Sorrentino, Author . Coffee House $14.95 (154p) ISBN 978-1-56689-182-0
In two sets of 26 brief tales each, Sorrentino (Little Casino
) puts life's losers through their paces. Like ever-widening rings in a pond of purposeful noir cliché, their sad-sack stories, some of which share titles across the book's
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Gilbert Sorrentino, Author Dalkey Archive Press $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-916583-93-4
Sorrentino crafts this intellectual page-turner, arguably his best work to date, out of 59 independent, short, surreal tales. (Jan.)
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Gilbert Sorrentino, Author Dalkey Archive Press $14.95 (580p) ISBN 978-1-56478-154-3
This postmodern murder mystery was originally published as three separate novels: Odd Number, Rose Theatre and Misterioso. (June)
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Gilbert Sorrentino, Author Green Integer $14.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-892295-67-5
Composed entirely in interrogative sentences, this spoof of boys' adventure books gives the humble question mark a serious workout and taxes readers as well. Gold Fools by experimentalist Gilbert Sorrentino (Mulligan Stew, etc.) charts the...
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Gilbert Sorrentino, Author Dalkey Archive Press $20 (160p) ISBN 978-0-916583-23-1
Almost immediately even the most tolerant and obliging reader may want to put aside this second volume in a projected trilogy begun in Odd Number. However, patient reading will reveal a sometimes witty, sometimes scurrilous look at a parade of...
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Gilbert Sorrentino, Author Dalkey Archive Press $19.95 (282p) ISBN 978-0-916583-43-9
Only close readers of the previous two volumes in Sorrentino's trilogy ( Odd Number ; Rose Theatrestet Brit spelling ) can hope to discern anything resembling a plot in this final work. A truncated series of frustrating anecdotes outline a ragtag...
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Gilbert Sorrentino, Author Dalkey Archive Press $11.95 (211p) 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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Gilbert Sorrentino, Author Dalkey Archive Press $19.95 (137p) ISBN 978-0-916583-84-2
In what is arguably his best book to date, Sorrentino ( Mulligan Stew ) has crafted a novel out of 59 independent, short, surreal tales, most of which are Freudian in tone. The setting of the sketches is never delineated (many of the individual...
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Gilbert Sorrentino, Author Dalkey Archive Press $12.95 (243p) ISBN 978-0-916583-86-6
In this episodic 1971 novel, Sorrentino introduces writers and artists of the 1960s, characters representative of all creatives--the aimless, the successful, the failures and the sell-outs. ``The author's fury at it all is tempered . . . and...
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Gilbert Sorrentino, Author Fromm International $19.95 (213p) ISBN 978-0-88064-163-0
Red, the barely adolescent Irish-American antihero of Sorrentino's latest novel, lives with his mother at his grandparents' dingy Brooklyn home, where he's become the perennial target of his grandmother's sadistic hatred. When she makes an egg too...
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Gilbert Sorrentino, Author, Christopher Sorrentino, Preface by Coffee House Press $14.95 (151p) ISBN 978-1-56689-233-9
This fine, final work by Brooklyn native Sorrentino (1929-2006), author of A Strange Commonplace, finds a rueful charm in the ""wretched clichés"" of ordinary failure. Edited by his son, Christopher Sorrentino, after the author's death,...
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