The Moon in Its Flight - Paperback

by Gilbert Sorrentino (Author)

A series of miniature masterpieces sealing Gilbert Sorrentino's reputation as the master of American avant-garde fiction.

Bearing his trademark balance between exquisitely detailed narration, groundbreaking form, and sharp insight into modern life, Gilbert Sorrentino's first-ever collection of stories spans thirty-five years of his writing career and contains both new stories and those that expanded and transformed the landscape of American fiction when they first appeared in such magazines and anthologies as Harper's, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories.

Author Biography

A luminary of American literature, Gilbert Sorrentino (1929 - 2006) was a boyhood friend of Hubert Selby, Jr. and a confidant of William Carlos Williams. He is the author of the classic novels Mulligan Stew and Little Casino and over thirty other books, including A Strange Commonplace, Lunar Follies, The Moon in Its Flight, and The Abyss of Human Illusion. A former editor at Grove Press, Sorrentino taught at Stanford University for many years before returning to his native Brooklyn.