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Little
Casino
Reviews
2003 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
BookSense.com:
"Far from being overly highbrow, Sorrentino manages to be thrillingly disorienting and, at the same time, quite accessible. Told in prose that crackles with wit and verve, Little Casino is another testament to Sorrentino's unconventional and darkly comic genius."
Washington Post Book World:
"Gilbert Sorrentino is one of our bravest, finest and least-read writers. Little Casino is, among many of its virtues, a grand entertainment . . . filled with energy, passion, wit and, from time to time, the true, unsentimental sadness of distant memory."
Los Angeles Times:
"In Little Casino, Sorrentino—an unsung hero in contemporary literature—displays his intelligence, exuberance and wisdom, making his novel both entertaining and incisive."
Philadelphia City Paper:
"There are books like Finnegans Wake that teach you how to read them as you go. Then there are books like Gilbert Sorrentino's new Little Casino that make you forget how to read anything else."
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
"Salute Gilbert Sorrentino! His is the spirit that keeps American fiction alive and kicking."
San Francisco Chronicle:
"These 52 autobiographical episodes evocatively capture fleeting scenes of Brooklyn youth during the 30s and 40s, living among Irish, Italian and Greek immigrants . . . One must admire the wordplay, levels of meaning, irony, insights, humor and occasional pathos that Sorrentino brings to these pages."
Rain Taxi Review of Books:
"A study of the complete works of Gilbert Sorrentino might well begin with a reading of Little Casino."
Review of Contemporary Fiction:
"[Little Casino] is an ingenious assemblage of stories, jokes, remarks . . . a logical extension of one of the most profoundly artistic careers (not over, of course) in contemporary American literature."
Kirkus Reviews:
"Sorrentino shows no lack of energy or invention in his latest as he brings his linguistic wizardry to bear on a trio of obsessions: lust, lost loves, and lingerie."
Publishers Weekly:
"[Little Casino] zooms across time and geography on a dizzy journey of names, memories and tangents."
Bradford Morrow:
"Crafty, wise, profoundly sane, this novel is simply a masterpiece."
David Markson:
"As usual, I am so awed by the fertility of Gilbert Sorrentino's imagination, so envious of his intelligence, and so astonished at his daring technical prestidigitation, that I'm tempted to spill out my own inkpot and weep. Except that I was also left laughing deliciously all the way."
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