Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things - (American Literature) by Gilbert Sorrentino (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Wildly comic and bitterly satiric, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things is Gilbert Sorrentino's ruthless, and timeless, attack on the New York art world of the 1950s and '60s.
- About the Author: Gilbert Sorrentino (1929-2006) is the most influential American novelist of the past forty years, and his work represents American fiction at its best and most daring.
- 243 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
- Series Name: American Literature
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Book Synopsis
Wildly comic and bitterly satiric, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things is Gilbert Sorrentino's ruthless, and timeless, attack on the New York art world of the 1950s and '60s. Among the best of Sorrentino's novels, Imaginative Qualities is also, quite simply, the best American novel ever written about writers and artists.
Review Quotes
"Has that air of astonished contempt that keeps true satire fresh forever." --Washington Post Book World
"His purpose is creative, not destructive, even though his creation will destroy some myths and haze any number of people who care to find themselves embodied here.... Gilbert Sorrentino has kept a steady hand on this bucking book and neither reader nor character will take over.... The richness of this book is hard to describe."
About the Author
Gilbert Sorrentino (1929-2006) is the most influential American novelist of the past forty years, and his work represents American fiction at its best and most daring. He was an editor for the literary magazines Neon and Kulcher, and later at Grove Press in the 1960s. He taught at Stanford University from 1982 to 1999. His novels include The Sky Changes, Steelwork, Aberration of Starlight, Mulligan Stew, and The Abyss of Human Illusion.
