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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
4 people + 1 night = a brilliant, funny, heartrending novel.,
By jjwylie@intermind.net (Henderson NV) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Aberration of Starlight (Paperback)
At a boardinghouse in New Jersey in 1939, four people come together: a ten-year-old boy, his mother and grandfather, and a salesman on the make. As each relates his or her own version or their meeting in a series of superbly-constructed yet vibrant vignettes, the pathos & hilarity build to a climax that both delights & instructs, leading to laughter that hurts.Sorrentino has contrived an elegantly-patterned narrative that also manages to transcend its own schematic, creating 4 living souls whose shared dreams, defeats, memories & actions can enrich those of us who get to know them, seeing in their lives much of our own. In this way, Sorrentino works as a literary alchemist, forging living gold from the base metals of his masterly technique & insight. This is a book that deserves to sit on the same shelf as Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf, and Joyce. It is a classic and will live long after its more popular brethren have been buried in the dustbins of literary history.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Four Part Dis-Harmony,
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This review is from: Aberration of Starlight (Hardcover)
The same story told by the four main characters - and all four are unreliable! Po-mo to the fourth power, as we try to construct the truth through such disparate eyes.I suppose each reader will come up with what we hope the future held for the four of them, but the only clue I have to what Sorrentino might have had in mind is the order in which he told their stories. But I'm probably wrong considering it's G. S. I wouldn't be surprised if he had no idea in mind at all. This is a quick read with long lasting wonder.
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