Trance - Hardcover

Sorrentino, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374278644 ISBN 13: 9780374278649

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2005

Synopsis

Follows a mismatched gang of middle-class militants--including a newspaper heiress kidnapped by the gang who chooses to remain with her former captors--on an underground tour of America following the deaths of the other members of the SLA in a violent confrontation with police in Los Angeles. By the author of Sound on Sound. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"Particularly impressive is Sorrentino's protean writing, which mimics a wide spectrum of idiolects. He gets inside the heads of all his characters, and the paragraphs slither between their different minds. Street hustlers, crumpled FBI agents, even Alice's toffee-nosed mother, for whom a dog is "in many ways, more valuable and satisfying than a daughter": the comprehensive arc of humanity astounds. Trance is an epic, epoch-defining achievement, up there with the finest works by Don DeLillo" (Daily Telegraph)

""This substantial book cleverly reinvents this story with a handsome helping of historical and contemporary satire"" (The Times)

"One of the most humane and haunting novels I've read in years - also the funniest and most incisive evocation of the 1970s - Trance will be placed on the very highest shelf of that art which explains the twentieth century to the twenty-first - Jonathan Lethem"

"...the writing is packed with pizzazz. The SLA and Patty/Tania changed America, just for a moment. Sorrentino makes that moment feel momentous" (Scotland on Sunday)

"one of this year's most surprising works of fiction. By turns indulgent and amazing." (Boston Globe)

From the Publisher:

A brilliant new American novelist arrives with a stunning dissection of the Patti Hearst kidnapping.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0374278644
• ISBN 13: 9780374278649
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 516