Crystal Vision Contributor(s): Sorrentino, Gilbert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1564781593 ISBN-13: 9781564781598 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $12.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1999 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 98-54958 |
Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive) |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.00 lbs) 304 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Both comic and haunting, ?Crystal Vision?invokes the world of magic and the arcane as filtered through a group of characters gathered on the streets and in the stores of their Brooklyn neighborhood to gossip, insult, lust, brag, and argue. In a series of seventy-eight short narratives, Gilbert Sorrentino perfectly captures the speech, illusions, and confusion of The Magician, Ritchie, The Arab, Irish Billy, Big Duck, Doc Friday, Fat Frankie, and many others. Through formal inventiveness, Sorrentino liberates these characters from the confines of realism and gives us their world--zany, vulgar, hilarious, and exuberant. |