Under the Shadow Revised Edition Contributor(s): Sorrentino, Gilbert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0916583937 ISBN-13: 9780916583934 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1991 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 91015014 |
Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive) |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.45 lbs) 137 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Under the Shadow?takes the form of fifty-nine brief sketches with simple nouns as titles. These exquisite vignettes take place on a plane at once surreal, abstract, and ominous, describing a set of people and incidents derived largely from fragments of conversation and gossip gathered here and there. They are reminiscent of Raymond Roussel's characters amid his inimitable ersatz pastorals, with tableaux both innocent and grotesque. There is something ambiguous about these passages, something deliberately closed and dreamlike. Many of them read like primal scenes of private pathologies; others are memories that, many years later, retain their power to haunt. |