Crystal vision
By: Gilbert Sorrentino.
Edition: 1st Dalkey Archive ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Normal, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Neighborhood -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Tarot -- Fiction; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Description: "Both comic and haunting, Crystal Vision invokes the world of magic and the arcane as filtered through a group of characters gathered on the streets and in the stores of their Brooklyn neighborhood to gossip, insult, lust, brag, and argue. In a series of seventy-eight short narratives, Gilbert Sorrentino perfectly captures the speech, illusions, and confusion of The Magician, Ritchie, The Arab, Irish Billy, Big Duck, Doc Friday, Fat Frankie, and many others.

Through formal inventiveness, Sorrentino liberates these characters from the confines of realism and gives us their world - zany, vulgar, hilarious, and exuberant."--BOOK JACKET.