| Blue Pastoral Contributor(s): Sorrentino, Gilbert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1564782514 ISBN-13: 9781564782519 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2000 Annotation: -- First paperback edition. -- Assembled out of a catalogue of literary styles and a chorus of comic voices, Gilbert Sorrentino's parodic and picaresque Pastoral takes his hero musician Serge "Blue" Gavotte on a journey across the country in search of the Perfect Musical Phrase. Blue Pastoral is a relentless Swiftian satire of American culture and the way it uses and abuses language. -- A recipient of numerous grants and awards including the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, two Guggenheim Fellowships, two NEA Fellowships and a Lannan Literary Award, Sorrentino is the author of thirteen novels as well as books of poetry and criticism. -- First published by North Point (1983). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00058955 |
| Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive) |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.8" W x 8.9" (1.00 lbs) 315 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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. |