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Blue Pastoral
Gilbert Sorrentino
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Description for Blue Pastoral
Paperback. Series: American Literature Series. Num Pages: 315 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
"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 ... Read more
"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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
315
Condition
New
Series
American Literature Series
Number of Pages
315
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564782519
SKU
V9781564782519
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Ref
99-15
About Gilbert Sorrentino
In addition to his books of poetry and criticism, Gilbert Sorrentino is the author of fourteen novels, including Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, The Sky Changes, and Mulligan Stew. He has received numerous grants and awards throughout his career, including the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, two Guggenheim Fellowships, two NEA Fellowships and a Lannan Literary Award.
Reviews for Blue Pastoral
"A wild and crazy book, lavishly inventive, full of surprises, sometimes exasperating, often exhilerating."
New York Times Book Review "Blue Pastoral is bedazzling. Its language
and what else is literature but language
dips and dances. Read it."
New Statesman "Sections are brilliant and wicked and they show how much of a stern dazzler Sorrentino can be."
Kirkus
New York Times Book Review "Blue Pastoral is bedazzling. Its language
and what else is literature but language
dips and dances. Read it."
New Statesman "Sections are brilliant and wicked and they show how much of a stern dazzler Sorrentino can be."
Kirkus