Gilbert Sorrentino
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Gilbert Sorrentino
In this novel of superbly stylized fragments of memory, Sorrentino captures the grit of golden-era Brooklyn. Each episode, affectingly textured with naked detail, is followed by the narrator’s deeper, more subjective climb down to the very bones of pure, poetic recollection. The reader, as though privy to a penetrating pyschological confession, accompanies the narrator, ferreting out the gristle and unconventional beauty found among the scrappy immigrant boys, hard-drinking blue-collar stiffs, and poor, sexy, and magenta-lipped women who inhabit the novel.
Gilbert Sorrentino
Set at a boardinghouse in rural New Jersey in the summer of 1939, this novel revolves around four people who experience the comedies, torments and rare pleasures of family, romance and sex while on vacation from Brooklyn and the Depression. Billy Recco, an eager ten-year-old in search of a father…Marie Recco, ne McGrath, an attractive divorce caught between her son and father, without a life of her own…John McGrath, dignified in manner yet brutally soured by life, insanely fearful of his daughter’s restlessness…Tom Thebus, a rakish salesman who precipitates the…
