The Moon in Its Flight

By Gilbert Sorrentino

A series of miniature masterpieces sealing Gilbert Sorrentino's reputation as the master of American avant-garde fiction.

Bearing his trademark balance between exquisitely detailed narration, groundbreaking form, and sharp insight into modern life, Gilbert Sorrentino's first-ever collection of stories spans thirty-five years of his writing career and contains both new stories and those that expanded and transformed the landscape of American fiction when they first appeared in such magazines and anthologies as Harper's, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories.

• 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.