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Lunar Follies
Gilbert Sorrentino
"If
it were possible, after reading a book as excoriatingly
funny and purifying as Lunar Follies , to engage
once again in the blurb business; if I didn't feel,
as I always do after reading the great Gilbert Sorrentino,
unsure of my every word, I might say this to you: Lunar
Follies is an hilarious, playful, and protean
book, resplendent with the qualities that have made
Sorrentino a writer like no other. He's learned, companionable,
ribald, brave, mathematical, at once virtuosic and somehow
without ego. Sorrentino's books break free of the routine
that inevitably accompanies traditional narrative, no
matter how clever and intelligent, and through a passionate
renunciation shine with an unforgiving, but for all
that, cleansing, light."—Jeffrey Eugenides
Lunar
Follies takes readers on a deliciously absurd
voyage through 53 imaginary gallery, museum, and performance
art exhibitions in a satirical guidebook perfect for
art lovers and the artistically challenged alike. Named
after geographical features of the moon, these searing
"reviews" delve into the sacred, the mundane,
the corporate, the scandalous, the fashionable, and
the just plain foolish. The art world may never be the
same again.
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