Stories by Gilbert Sorrentino
April 1, 2004 6 x 8 268 pages 978-1-56689-152-3
A series of miniature masterpieces sealing Gilbert Sorrentinos reputation as the master of American avant-garde fiction.
Bearing his trademark balance between exquisitely detailed narration, groundbreaking form, and sharp insight into modern life, Gilbert Sorrentinos first-ever collection of stories spans thirty-five years of his writing career and contains both new stories and those that expanded and transformed the landscape of American fiction when they first appeared in such magazines and anthologies as Harpers, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories.
About the Author
A luminary of American literature, Gilbert Sorrentino (1929 2006) was a boyhood friend of Hubert Selby, Jr. and a confidant of William Carlos Williams. He is the author of the classic novels Mulligan Stew and Little Casino and over thirty other books, including A Strange Commonplace, Lunar Follies, The Moon in Its Flight, and The Abyss of Human Illusion. A former editor at Grove Press, Sorrentino taught at Stanford University for many years before returning to his native Brooklyn.