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1	Mulligan Stew more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist see all copies from $2.84! new only from $3.93! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Red the Fiend more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist A recasting of Sorrentino's "Aberration of Starlight", this is the story of how a child becomes a monster: of how Red the boy becomes Red the Fiend. With an absent father who turns up only to drunkenly berate his son, and a grandmother whose aggression crescendos to a daily beating, Red can only escape by turning his hatred outward, by being as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Aberration of Starlight more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist Four people are on vacation in rural new Jersey: a fatherless 10-year-old, his hapless mother Marie, her embittered father, and a salesman who precipitates the conflict between Marie and her father. The story is told by each character in turn with the help of letters, Q & A sections, fantasies, and fragments of dialogue. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Steelwork more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist A Brooklyn neighborhood becomes corrupted by greed in a postwar economy of easy money. This episodic novel, consisting of short bursts of narrative, takes the neighborhood itself as its protagonist. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Sky Changes more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist A debut novel about the effects of divorce on a family. Tracing the New York-to-San Francisco journey of a family as husband and wife try to maintain the illusion that their marriage can be rescued, Sorrentino's novel records the damage they inflict upon each other as their life together degenerates into hatred and violence. Along the way, their ... see all copies from $2.63! new only from $9.54! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist The New York artistic world of the 1950s and 60s is the setting for Sorrentino's novel about the way art and life feed off each other. Eight characters provide shifting, conflicting, illuminating views of a world full of artists, fakers, and hangers-on. see all copies from $3.82! new only from $5.68! \| first editions
7	Splendide Hotel more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist From A to Z, from Alpha to Omega, this novel encompasses the natural movement and necessity of the alphabet to construct the written word. Each of the 26 chapters expands on images suggested by each letter and reflects upon the art and imagination of William Carlos Williams and Arthur Rimbaud. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Little Casino more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist Many different stories, characters, and time periods weave through the 52 chapters that comprise Sorrentino's portrait of a Brooklyn community. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Something Said more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist For over four decades, Gilbert Sorrentino has produced brilliant, penetrating essays and reviews, each one an uncompromising statement of what is good - and what is not - in literature and culture. Something Said collects in a single volume these definitive readings of such major twentieth-century innovators as William Carlos Williams, Edward ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.53! \| SVS
10	Under the Shadow more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist A series of 59 brief vignettes composed of bits of random conversation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Lunar Follies more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist "For decades, Gilbert Sorrentino has remained a unique figure in our literature. He reminds us that fiction lives because artists make it. . . . To the novel-everyone's novel-Sorrentino brings honor, tradition and relentless passion."-Don DeLillo "Possessing both the grace of James Joyce and the snap and crackle of Tom Wolfe, [Sorrentino] is a ... see all copies from $3.49! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Moon in Its Flight more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist "Gilbert Sorrentino has long been one of our most intelligent and daring writers. But he is also one of our funniest writers, given to Joycean flights of wordplay, punning, list-making, vulgarity and relentless self-commentary."-"The New York Times" "Sorrentino's ear for dialects and metaphor is perfect: his creations, however brief their presence ... see all copies from $4.19! new only from $9.59! \| SVS
13 view cover	Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Hard Cover Version more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino, Sheila A Sorrentino add to wishlist MOSBY'S TEXTBOOK FOR NURSING ASSISTANTS contains everything Nursing Assistants need to know about working in a variety of health care settings. This popular text presents information in a reader-friendly, highly visual format that appeals to learners of all levels. The clear, logical presentation of procedures, with hundreds of large, full-color ... see all copies from $10.01!
14 view cover	A Strange Commonplace more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist "Sorrentino [is] a writer like no other. He's learned, companionable, ribald, brave, mathematical, at once virtuosic and somehow without ego. Sorrentino's books break free of the routine that inevitably accompanies traditional narrative and through a passionate renunciation shine with an unforgiving, yet cleansing, light."-Jeffrey Eugenides "For ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Odd Number more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
16	Mulligan stew : a novel more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Pack of Lies: A Trilogy more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist A compendium of three novels by the popular crime writer and satirist. see all copies from $2.75! new only from $33.53! \| SVS
18 view cover	Gold Fools more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist Three teenage boys, Nort and Dick Shannon and their friend, Bud Merkel, find themselves in the middle of the forbidding Gila Desert on an adventure that will, they hope, lead them to the fabled riches of desert gold. Their guides, the grizzled prospector, Hank Crosby, and the leathery old cowpoke, Billee Dobb, accompany them through blistering ... see all copies from $4.79! new only from $11.62! \| SVS
19 view cover	New and Selected Poems 1958-1998 by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist One of the most noted of American fiction writers, Gilbert Sorrentino is also a brilliant poet, and has authored some nine books of poetry, including the renowned "The Orangery," first published in 1978 and republished by Sun & Moon Press in 1995. This new volume of selected poems includes the poems of the Black Sparrow edition of 1981 and the ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $8.97! \| first editions
20	Flawless Play Restored: The Masque of Fungo more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
21	Rose Theatre more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
22 view cover	Misterioso more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist see all copies from $6.00! first editions
23	Bible Stories more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino (Designer), William Anthony add to wishlist see all copies from $7.48! signed copies \| first editions
24	Something Said Pa more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25	Splendide-Hotel: Meditation on Rimbaud more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist From A to Z, from Alpha to Omega, this novel encompasses the natural movement and necessity of the alphabet to construct the written word. Each of the 26 chapters expands on images suggested by each letter and reflects upon the art and imagination of William Carlos Williams and Arthur Rimbaud. see all copies from $5.00! signed copies \| first editions

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