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The abyss of human illusion : a novel
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The abyss of human illusion : a novel

Author: Gilbert Sorrentino
Publisher: Minnesota : Coffee House Press : Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st ed
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"Titled after a line from Henry James, The Abyss of Human Illusion consists of fifty narrative set pieces full of savage humor and cathartic passion - an elegiac paean to the grimly comic, unsentimental, and quintessentially American world Gilbert Sorrentino so brilliantly captured in his long and storied career."--Jacket.
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Genre/Form: Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gilbert Sorrentino
ISBN: 9781566892339 1566892333
OCLC Number: 318876919
Description: xii, 151 p. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: Gilbert Sorrentino ; with a preface by Christopher Sorrentino.

Abstract:

"Titled after a line from Henry James, The Abyss of Human Illusion consists of fifty narrative set pieces full of savage humor and cathartic passion - an elegiac paean to the grimly comic, unsentimental, and quintessentially American world Gilbert Sorrentino so brilliantly captured in his long and storied career."--Jacket.

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