The Moon in Its Flight

by Gilbert Sorrentino

Book Overview

"Gilbert Sorrentino has long been one of our most intelligent and daring writers. But he is also one of our funniest writers, given to Joycean flights of wordplay, punning, list-making, vulgarity and relentless self-commentary."--The New York Times

"Sorrentino's ear for dialects and metaphor is perfect: his creations, however brief their presence, are vivid, and much of his writing is very funny and clever, piled with allusions."--The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566891523
• ISBN13: 9781566891523
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Highly original, poetic and meaty at the same time

Is there another writer today who can evoke a time, a way of life, with the gutsiness of realism tinged with the poet's touch? It would be impossible to pick one of these stories as a favorite since they are all evocative, shadow cast in nostalgia not only for a certain style, but a certain time. Sorrento is such a wonderful writer who should be better known.

Hilarious and Touching

There are a lot of different elements, I think, in what makes these stories so delightful, and I can't say I really understand how they meld. While they can be hilarious, somehow or other the primary element isn't satire, but something sadder and deeper and sweeter. There's a whole lost world here in the references of the forties, fifties and sixties. And the voice that so superbly apprises us of the trajectories of these mad men and women belies its own distance in its loving detail. It is hilarious, but something more, too.