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Little Casino / Gilbert Sorrentino.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.O7 L58 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sorrentino, Gilbert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
- Autobiographical memory--Fiction.
- Autobiographical memory.
- American fiction--21st century.
- New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Fictional autobiographies.
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017 (inscription) (Mathews copy)
- Sorrentino, Gilbert (autograph) (Mathews copy)
- Physical Description:
- 214 pages, 10 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Distribution:
- Saint Paul, MN : Consortium Book Sales & Distribution.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- In this superb novel composed of fragments of memory, Gilbert Sorrentino captures the unconventional nuances of a conventional world. A masterful collage of events is evocatively chained together by secrets and hidden truths that are almost accidentally revealed. Each episode, affectingly textured with penetrating detail, ferrets out the gristle and unconventional beauty found in the voices of the working-class inhabitants from an irretrievable, golden age Brooklyn.
- Marketing Plans: National print advertising Co-op available Direct mail to academic literature and creative writing classes Heavy website promotion
- Born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1929, Gilbert Sorrentino is a master of experimental literature. He has published over eight books of poetry and a dozen novels, including the classic "Mulligan Stew." He has worked as an editor for Grove Press, and is the recipient of many literary awards. He recently retired from teaching at Stanford University.
- Contents:
- The imprint of death
- The chums of 6B4
- On a Studebaker coupe
- The burdens of the Depression
- The very picture of loneliness
- The scow
- A more innocent time
- Lest it be forgotten
- Spring colors
- The fool
- Absolutely beautiful
- The light of bowling alleys
- Imbecile and slave
- In Caldwell
- Costume parties
- The libertine's hell
- Beauty Parade
- The black force of eros
- Mechanics of the dream world
- Poor banished children of Eve
- Shoes rain of the cops
- Presidential greetings
- This is the life
- The salt of the earth
- The kisses of Dolores
- Stars of the silver screen
- An attractive woman
- The dark and iron world
- Shuffle off to Buffalo
- This valley of tears
- The true ciphers at last
- Four soldiers
- Martinis are blue
- Pitie them that weepe
- The Christmas tree
- 4th of July
- Gallant improvisation
- Epistolary associates
- Clarity, neatness, and thoroughness
- The tomato episode
- Fats Navarro
- Mysteries of causes and effects
- Never trust a writer
- Little or no respect
- A scherzarade
- This indifferent earth
- A nice surprise
- Small magic
- In a mellotone
- Helen and Connie
- Lakeside and oceanside
- The color of stars.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.
- Harry Mathews Collection copy has inscription: "To Harry - 'How is it far if you think of it?' as ever, Gil"
- ISBN:
- 1566891264
- 9781566891264
- OCLC:
- 48469150
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