Sorrentino Reviewed elsewhere

Rake brought this review of Sorrentino’s The Moon in Its Flight to my attention. While I enjoyed my recent reading of it and agree with much of what the reviewer says of Sorrentino’s work as it applies to his wider oeuvre, I was not thrilled with the short story collection. Probably my lack of interest in short fiction reading in general, but I found many of stories to be too similar when read in sequence. Though for the short story inclined I wouldn’t want to turn them off from trying Sorrentino’s book.

A few of the pieces are written under some kind of constraint, though I don’t have it in front of me right now so the only one I clearly recall is a story made of sentences from both Sorrentino’s and others’ works (similar to Abish’s 99: The New Meaning except Abish didn’t use his own sentences (not that I’m aware of at least)).

More review of his novels are forthcoming from me.

Edit: Here’s a piece by Sorrentino in the Conjunctions web archives: “Beliefs Reasonable, Unreasonable Beliefs”.

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