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Blue pastoral / Gilbert Sorrentino.
LIBRA - Special PS3569.O7 B64 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sorrentino, Gilbert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musicians--Fiction.
- Musicians.
- Travelers--Fiction.
- Travelers.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Musical fiction.
- Satirical literature.
- Picaresque literature.
- Humorous fiction.
- Publishers' advertisements.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017 (inscription) (Mathews copy)
- Sorrentino, Gilbert (autograph) (Mathews copy)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 315 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Dalkey Archive edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Normal, Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2000, 1983.
- Summary:
- "I see him now! Somewhere out there in that gloaming that we call the Past that Time forgot - his ratty beard and frizzy hair, his hearty grease sandwiches, his rusted bicycle clips. An unlikely hero, your good faces seem to say ..." "And so we meet our hero Serge ("Blue") Gavotte, a modern-day Candide who quits his job mounts a piano atop a broken-down pushcart and sets off with wife and child on a visionary quest across contemporary America in search of the "Perfect Musical Phrase." From the dismal plains of the Midwest to the technicolor sunsets of the Southwest, Blue refuses to let financial troubles, lecherous professors or the burdensome weight of his piano prevent him from reaching his final goal." "A work of art masquerading as artifice, Blue Pastoral is a madhouse production whose hilarious cast of styles and forms includes everything from Rabelaisian lists to Swiftian satires to parodies of such pastoral modes as the eclogue, the idyll, and the elegy."--Jacket.
- Notes:
- Advertisements: pages [6]-[9].
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.
- Mathews Collection copy has inscription: "To Harry --- with much admiration --- Gil"
- ISBN:
- 1564782514
- 9781564782519
- OCLC:
- 44669485
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