Gilbert Sorrentino's third novel is about the New York artistic and literary world of the 1950s and '60s, specifically the artists, writers, hangers-on, and the 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. Told in the weary voice of a cynical ...
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Gilbert Sorrentino's third novel is about the New York artistic and literary world of the 1950s and '60s, specifically the artists, writers, hangers-on, and the 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. Told in the weary voice of a cynical and sardonic narrator, the novel is crammed with fantastic characters, incidents, and episodes, and moves from wit and satire through elegiac brooding, to bitter invective. It is a superb re-creation of a real time and place.
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Seller's Description:
Very good in good dust jacket. 243 p. Audience: General/trade. Sept 1971 Pantheon hardcover stated 1st edition. Edgewear (some tears closed), soil/tanning and chipping on dj, top back corner a little bumped, light tanning on cover and pages, a bit of soil on edge, else text clean, binding tight.
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Book. Octavo, 243 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine yellow with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Exterior shows slight age toning and minor wear to the head tail edges. Boards have some foxing exteriorly and to the head tail edges. Mild splaying to the fore edges due to cocked spine. Text block has slight age toning to the edges. Deckled fore edge. Slight pencil notations interiorly. Illustrated. First edition, first printing. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column J, ND-J. 1380183. FP New Rockville Stock.