Gilbert Sorrentino

Mulligan Stew

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Mulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to write a new wave murder mystery, his frustrating emotional and sexual life wreaks havoc on his work-in-progress. As a result, his narrative (the very book we are reading) turns into a literary stew: an uproariously funny melange of journal entries, erotic poetry, parodies of all kinds, love letters, interviews, and lists - as Hugh Kenner in Harper's wrote, for another such virtuoso of the List you'd have to resurrect Joyce. Soon Lamont's characters (on loan from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flann O'Brien, J… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-56478-087-4
EAN: 9781564780874
Produktnummer: 9353252
Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
Seitenangabe: 446 S.

Über den Autor

In addition to his books of poetry and criticism, Gilbert Sorrentino is the author of fourteen novels, including Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, The Sky Changes, and Mulligan Stew. He has received numerous grants and awards throughout his career, including the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, two Guggenheim Fellowships, two NEA Fellowships and a Lannan Literary Award.