Imaginative qualities of actual things

Gilbert Sorrentino's third novel is about the New York artistic and literary world of the 1950s and '60s, specifically the artists, writers, and hangers-on, and phonies who populated that world. In a prose that is ruthless as well as possessed of an enormous comic verve, the dedicated, the stupid, the rapacious, and the foolish are dissected. Eight major characters, many of whom reappear in Sorrentino's later novels, are employed to allow the reader a variety of views of the same world.--back cover

Year

1971

Language

English

Publisher

Dalkey Archive Press

Editions

3

Pages

243

ISBN

9781564784704

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