Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things

Gilbert Sorrentino

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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.

Book Details

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date: Mar 1st, 2007
Pages: 243
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.60in - 0.79in - 0.77lb
EAN: 9781564784704
Categories: • Literary

About the Author

Sorrentino, Gilbert: - 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.

Praise for this book

"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."

"Has that air of astonished contempt that keeps true satire fresh forever." --Washington Post Book World