Aberration of Starlight

Gilbert Sorrentino

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English

Dalkey Archive Press
07 October 1993

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive)

Set at a boardinghouse in rural New Jersey in the summer of 1939, this novel revolves around four people who experience the comedies, torments and rare pleasures of family, romance and sex while on vacation from Brooklyn and the Depression. Billy Recco, an eager ten-year-old in search of a father... Marie Recco, nee McGrath, an attractive divorcee caught between her son and father, without a life of her own... John McGrath, dignified in manner yet brutally soured by life, insanely fearful of his daughter's restlessness... Tom Thebus, a rakish salesman who precipitates the conflict between Marie's hopes and her father's wrath. What emerges is a sure understanding of four people who are occasionally ridiculous, but whose integrity and good intentions are consistently, and tragically, frustrated. Combining humor and feeling, balancing the details and the rhythms of experience, Aberration of Starlight re-creates a time and a place as it captures the sadness and value of four lives. First published by Random House in 1980, it is widely considered one of Sorrentino's finest novels.

By: Gilbert Sorrentino
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 144mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 294g
ISBN: 9781564784391
ISBN 10: 1564784398
Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive)
Pages: 211
Publication Date: 07 October 1993
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gilbert Sorrentino began Neon in 1956, a literary magazine for which he edited six issues. 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 is currently a professor at Stanford University where he teaches creative writing. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships and a Lannan Literary Award.

Reviews for Aberration of Starlight

Wonderfully entertaining. Mr. Sorrentino's imagination is rich and fine. - New York Times Book Review Lively with narrative ingenuity - yet right to the heart of ordinary life. - Philip Roth