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ISBN10: 1566891264
ISBN13: 9781566891264
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: May 1 2002
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.64 Depth: 8.62
Language: English
Awards: PEN/Faulkner Award
ISBN13: 9781566891264
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: May 1 2002
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.64 Depth: 8.62
Language: English
Awards: PEN/Faulkner Award
These episodes from a Brooklyn long gone astonish with their penetrating, subtle detail. In this novel of superbly stylized fragments of memory, Sorrentino captures the grit of golden-era Brooklyn. Each episode, affectingly textured with naked detail, is followed by the narrator's deeper, more subjective climb down to the very bones of pure, poetic recollection. The reader, as though privy to a penetrating psychological confession, accompanies the narrator, ferreting out the gristle and unconventional beauty found among the scrappy immigrant boys, hard-drinking blue-collar stiffs, and poor, sexy, and magenta-lipped women who inhabit the novel.
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