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<p>“Gilbert Sorrentino has long been one of our most intelligent and daring writers. But he is also one of our funniest writers, given to Joycean flights of wordplay, punning, list-making, vulgarity and relentless self-commentary.”—<i>The New York Times</i></p> <p>“Sorrentino’s ear for dialects and metaphor is perfect: his creations, however brief their presence, are vivid, and much of his writing is very funny and clever, piled with allusions.”—<i>The Washington Post Book World</i></p> <p>Bearing his trademark balance between exquisitely detailed narration, ground-breaking form, and sharp insight into modern life, Gilbert Sorrentino’s first-ever collection of stories spans 35 years of his writing career and contains both new stories and those that expanded and transformed the landscape of American fiction when they first appeared in such magazines and anthologies as <i>Harper’s</i>, <i>Esquire</i>, and <i>The Best American Short Stories</i>.</p> <p>In these grimly comic, unsentimental tales, the always-memorable characters dive headlong into the wasteland of urban culture, seeking out banal perversions, confusing art with the art scene, mistaking lust for love, and letting petty a
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- Author
- Sorrentino, Gilbert
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press ; Distributed to trade by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781566892896
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.7 / 5 (55 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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