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Pack of Lies: A Trilogy
Gilbert Sorrentino is one of the most accomplished innovators in twentieth-century fiction, a position that is everywhere confirmed in this trilogy of novels, Odd Number, Rose Theatre, and Misterioso. Beginning with a series of interrogations (we never do find out why they are being conducted) about characters drawn from other Sorrentino novels and concluding with the reappearance of the same characters, Pack of Lies is Gilbert Sorrentino's testament to the supremacy of art and society, and a vicious comedy portraying a world of fraud and mayhem.
Details
ISBN-10
1-56478-154-2
ISBN-13
9781564781543
Publication Date
Jun 1997
Nb of pages
580
Dimensions 6 x 9 in.
ReviewsPress Reviews
Washington Post
Cups
Perhaps in this consolidated form the trilogy will at last be recognized as the utterly significant work that it is . . . As this trilogy abundantly demonstrates, with its lampooning of everything
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Los Angeles Times
Odd Number extends and expands the exploration of the impossible limits of experience and language . . . Works that venture into this strange territory that eludes language inevitably are
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Washington Post
In Odd Number . . . Sorrentino investigates yet another formal problem—the disintegration inherent in the investigative process. By calling into question the whole notion of truth, and
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Hudson Review
The work of a sophisticated, meticulous artist with a gift for comedy, a perfect-pitch ear for American speech . . . Sorrentino surpasses even Flaubert in the contempt he lavishes upon a
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