Sky Changes Contributor(s): Sorrentino, Gilbert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1564781836 ISBN-13: 9781564781833 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1998 Annotation: Divorce in America is the subject of Gilbert Sorrentino's novel. Tracing the New York-to-San Francisco journey of a family as husband and wife try to maintain the illusion that their marriage can be rescued, The Sky Changes records the unimaginable damage they inflict upon each other in order to force themselves towards divorce. Along the way, their two children become victims of the parents' failures and are dragged through the torment of this disintegrating marriage. No other novel in American literature is so narrowly dedicated to recording close-up the devastating pain of a marriage falling apart and the doomed-to-fail efforts to make it work. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 97051426 |
Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive) |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.50 lbs) 139 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Divorce in America is the subject of Gilbert Sorrentino's relentlessly disturbing first novel. Tracing the New York-to-San Francisco journey of a family as the husband and wife try to maintain the illusion that the marriage can be rescued, ?"The Sky Changes"?records the imaginable damage they inflict upon each other in order to force themselves towards divorce. Along the way, their two children become victims of the parents' failures and are dragged throughout the torment of this disintegrating marriage. No other novel in American literature is so narrowly dedicated to recording close-up the devastating pain of a marriage falling apart and the doomed-to-fail efforts to make it work. And no other novel so perfectly captures the moral bankruptcy of the United States as a background to divorce. |