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Gilbert Sorrentino

Mulligan Stew

Mulligan Stew

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Mulligan Stew is Sorrentino's finest achievement, a comic exploration of the modern literary imagination. Antony Lamont's narrative turns into a literary stew, featuring journal entries, erotic poetry, parodies, love letters, interviews, and lists, sabotaging his work. Sorrentino has expanded the possibilities of what a novel can be.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 446 pages
Publication date: 24 August 2023
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press


Widely regarded as Sorrentino's finest achievement, Mulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to write a new wave murder mystery, his frustrating emotional and sexual life wreaks havoc on his work-in-progress. As a result, his narrative (the very book we are reading) turns into a literary stew an uproariously funny melange of journal entries, erotic poetry, parodies of all kinds, love letters, interviews, and lists—as Hugh Kenner in Harper's wrote, for another such virtuoso of the List, you'd have to resurrect Joyce. Soon, Lamont's characters (on loan from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flann O'Brien, James Joyce, and Dashiell Hammet) take on lives of their own, completely sabotaging his narrative. Sorrentino has vastly extended the possibilities of what a novel can be in this extraordinary work, which both parodies and pays homage to the art of fiction.

Widely regarded as Sorrentino's finest achievement, Mulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to write a new wave murder mystery, his frustrating emotional and sexual life wreaks havoc on his work-in-progress. As a result, his narrative (the very book we are reading) turns into a literary stew an uproariously funny melange of journal entries, erotic poetry, parodies of all kinds, love letters, interviews, and lists—as Hugh Kenner in Harper's wrote, for another such virtuoso of the List, you'd have to resurrect Joyce. Soon, Lamont's characters (on loan from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flann O'Brien, James Joyce, and Dashiell Hammet) take on lives of their own, completely sabotaging his narrative. Sorrentino has vastly extended the possibilities of what a novel can be in this extraordinary work, which both parodies and pays homage to the art of fiction.

Weight: 666g
Dimension: 141 x 219 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781628974485

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