| Red the Fiend Contributor(s): Sorrentino, Gilbert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1564784525 ISBN-13: 9781564784520 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2006017022 |
| Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive) |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.7 lbs) 213 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A recasting of Sorrentino's Aberration of Starlight, this is the story of how a child becomes a monster: of how Red the boy becomes Red the Fiend. With an absent father who turns up only to drunkenly berate his son, and a grandmother whose aggression crescendos to a daily beating, Red can only escape by turning his hatred outward, by being as cruel and bitter as his young life has been. Employing direct, elegant sentences, while retaining his characteristic formal inventiveness, Sorrentino evokes this unyieldingly grim Brooklyn boyhood, describing close, familial conflicts that deepen and widen to reflect the hardships of Depression-era life. |