Overview
āTo the novelāeveryoneās novelāSorrentino brings honor, tradition, and relentless passion.āāDon DeLillo
āSorrentino [is] a writer like no other. Heās learned, companionable, ribald, brave, mathematical, at once virtuosic and somehow without ego. Sorrentinoās books break free of the routine that inevitably accompanies traditional narrative and through a passionate renunciation shine with an unforgiving, yet cleansing, light.āāJeffrey Eugenides
āFor a compelling, hilarious, and ultimately compassionate rendering of life in mid-20th-century America, forget the conscientious subjectors and take Gilbert Sorrentino at his golden Word.āāHarry Mathews
āOne of [Brooklyn]ās most intriguing and authentic homegrown talents, Sorrentinoās Bay Ridge deserves to be appreciated alongside Malamudās Crown Heights, Arthur Millerās Coney Island, Henry Millerās and Betty Smithās Williamsburg, Hamillās and Austerās Park Slope, and Lethemās Boerum Hill.āāBookforum
Titled after a line from Henry James, Gilbert Sorrentinoās final novel consists of fifty narrative set pieces full of savage humor and cathartic passionāan elegiac paean to the bleak world he so brilliantly captured in his long and storied career. Mirroring the inexplicable coincidences, encounters, and hallmarks of modern life, this novel revisits familiar charactersāthe aging artists, miserable couples, crackerjack salesmen, and drunken soldiers of previous books, placing them in familiar landscapes lost in time between the Depression era and some fraudulent bohemia of the present
.A luminary of American literature, Gilbert Sorrentino was a boyhood friend of Hubert Selby, Jr., a confidant of William Carlos Williams, a two-time PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, and the recipient of a Lannan Literary Lifetime Achievement Award. He taught at Stanford for many years before returning to his native Brooklyn and published over thirty books before his death in 2006.
This book title, The Abyss of Human Illusion, ISBN: 9781566892339, by Gilbert Sorrentino, Christopher Sorrentino, published by Coffee House Press (February 1, 2010) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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