Gilbert Sortentino: A Descriptive Bibliography. This item is unavailable.Gilbert Sortentino: A Descriptive Bibliography

The trajectory of Gilbert Sorrentino's literary life can be tracked in this bibliography, from his first short story in a 1956 issue of his college literary magazine, through his involvement with the New York publishing scene in the 1960s and 1970s, and finally into the 1980s and early 1990, when his work, as at the beginning, once again is being published by small presses. The bibliography treats writings both by and about Sorrentino, uniting in one volume exhaustive descriptive analyses of primary works with annotated treatment of secondary sources. It thereby serves the needs not only of scholars and collectors interested in the physical production of Sorrentino's books but also of literary critics concerned with matters of reception and interpretation.

Exemplary.... It is so good that McPheron's descriptive data... can stand with the work of such legendary bibliographers as John Slocum and Fredson Bowers.... Anyone working on Sorrentino, and certainly his future biographer, will be forever indebted to this study. It is a model of what descriptive bibliography can be and do.--"ANQ"

Sorrentino's presence is attested to by William McPheron, whose "Gilbert Sorrentino: A Descriptive Bibliography" includes such pertinent and extensive annotations of the history of this author's publications as to qualify as historical analysis.--"American Literary Scholarship"

Gilbert Sorrentino's career is one that makes sound descriptive bibliography an absolute necessity.... What one finds in McPheron's bibliography is the fascinating record of a writer absolutely central to the literary period in which he lives.--?"Resources for American Literary Study" vol. 21, no. 2