ReadySteadyBook presents Gilbert Sorrentino

Biography

Gilbert Sorrentino (April 27, 1929 – May 18, 2006) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and editor. In over twenty-five works of fiction and poetry, Sorrentino gleefully and innovatively explored the comic and formal possibilities of language and literature. His insistence on the primacy of language and his forays into metafiction mark him as a postmodernist – an obvious heir to modernists such as James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Flann O'Brien, and Edward Dahlberg – but he is also known for his ear for American speech and his attention to the particularities of place, especially of his native Brooklyn.

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