Red the Fiend - Couverture souple

Sorrentino, Gilbert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1564784525 ISBN 13 : 9781564784520

Editeur : Dalkey Archive Press, 2006

Synopsis

Book by Sorrentino Gilbert

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Gilbert Sorrentino was born in Brooklyn in 1927. He attended Brooklyn College and served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps for two years. In 1956 he began Neon, a literary magazine. In the early 60s he was an editor and a contributor for Kulchur magazine and served as an editor for Grove Press from 1965-1970. He has published thirty books of fiction and poetry, including two novels that were finalists for the PEN/Faulkner award: Little Casino and Aberration of Starlight. A recipient of the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005, a Lannan Literary Award, and two Guggenheim Fellowships, he was a professor at Stanford University for many years. He died on May 18, 2006.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 cruel and bitter as his young life has been. Employing direct, elegant sentences, while retaining his characteristic formal inventiveness, Sorrentino evokes this unyieldingly grim Brooklyn boyhood, describing close, familial conflicts that deepen and widen to reflect the hardships of Depression-era life.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Dalkey Archive Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1564784525
• ISBN 13: 9781564784520
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 213