From Publishers Weekly
Sorrentino crafts this intellectual page-turner, arguably his best work to date, out of 59 independent, short, surreal tales.
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From Library Journal
These 59 sketches--inventive elaborations of half-recalled images--combine a Joycean sensibility with the linguistic playfulness of Robert Coover. Several characters appear in more than one vignette along with recurring images that include a half-clad woman by a kitchen window, a snowman, and three women dressed in white by a dark lake. There is some discussion of signs and signifiers and their relationship to object. Sorrentino pokes fun at literary theory and critical methodology while at the same time using insights derived from such theories. His form is perfect, and his method presents the reader with a mysterious and tantalizing puzzle, yielding a haunting and powerful reading experience. Recommended for contemporary literature collections.
- William Gargan, Brooklyn Coll. Lib., CUNY
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- William Gargan, Brooklyn Coll. Lib., CUNY
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
