Mulligan Stew

Mulligan Stew
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Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages : 443
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ISBN-10 : 9781628974751
ISBN-13 : 1628974753
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mulligan Stew by : Gilbert Sorrentino

Download or read book Mulligan Stew written by Gilbert Sorrentino and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as Sorrentino's finest achievement, Mulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to write a "new wave murder mystery," his frustrating emotional and sexual life wreaks havoc on his work-in-progress. As a result, his narrative (the very book we are reading) turns into a literary "stew" an uproariously funny melange of journal entries, erotic poetry, parodies of all kinds, love letters, interviews, and lists—as Hugh Kenner in "Harper's" wrote, "for another such virtuoso of the List you'd have to resurrect Joyce." Soon, Lamont's characters (on loan from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flann O'Brien, James Joyce, and Dashiell Hammet) take on lives of their own, completely sabotaging his narrative. Sorrentino has vastly extended the possibilities of what a novel can be in this extraordinary work, which both parodies and pays homage to the art of fiction.


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