VxMOm [Download pdf] The Fugitives Online [VxMOm.ebook] The Fugitives Pdf Free Christopher Sorrentino *Download PDF | ePub | DOC | audiobook | ebooks Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #1229992 in Books SIMON SCHUSTER 2017-02-28 2017-02-28Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.37 x .90 x 5.50l, .0 #File Name: 1476795754336 pagesSIMON SCHUSTER | File size: 51.Mb Christopher Sorrentino : The Fugitives before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised The Fugitives: 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. long winded but interesting characters and decent storyBy Ken MitchellI tend to like a more concise writing stye. Mr Sorrentino seems to like to use a lot of words and quotable phrases. I know a lot of people like that style, so if you do, you will like the book. The story is interesting, and develops slowly. The characters unveil themselves over time, and there are a few surprises. I do find that writers with a meandering style loose site of the narrative and this seemed to be the case with "The Fugitives".1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. CHRISTOPHER SORRENTINO: AS MUCH A FUGITIVE AS THE CHARACTERS IN HIS NOVEL?By Teacher MikeThis was not a bad book, just not a great one. I expected more from a book and author short listed for a National Book Award. I found some of the plot points, one that was pivotal, to be improbable at best. The characters were more than one-dimensional, but the people they turned out to be at the end of the novel, didn't seem totally consistent with who they were shown to be along the path to the end. The dialogue was often sharp and witty, and many passages were thoughtful, and so well written as to be philosophical and occasionally almost poetic. Clearly the author is talented, but I hope he uses those talents on a more carefully crafted book. One that can rise above the level of good pulp fiction.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Great book with unexpected twists and turns!By Smokey B.I found the book highly original, well-written and with a fantastic use of language. At first the story seemed funny but slowly it evolved into something quite sad and thought provoking. When you finish the book you'll find yourself thinking about the protagonist, Sandy Mulligan and wonder what will become of him. You kind of can't get him out of your head. Great book. ldquo;A mischievously funny, keenly incisive, and mind-bending outlaw talerdquo; (Booklist, starred review) about love and obsession, loyalty and betrayal, race and identity, and compulsion and free will.Writer Sandy Mulligan is in trouble. To escape his turbulent private life and the scandal thatrsquo;s maimed his public reputation, hersquo;s retreated from Brooklyn to a quiet Michigan town to finish his long-overdue novel. There, he becomes fascinated by John Salteau, a native Ojibway storyteller who regularly appears at the local library. But Salteau is not what he appears to bemdash;a fact suspected by Kat Danhoff, an ambitious Chicago reporter who arrives to investigate a theft from a local Indian-run casino. Salteaursquo;s possible role in the crime could be the key to the biggest story of her stalled career. Bored, emotionally careless, and sexually reckless, Katrsquo;s sudden appearance in town immediately attracts a restive Sandy. All three are fugitives of one kind or another. And in their growing involvement, each becomes a pawn in the othersrsquo; gamesmdash;all of them just one mistake from losing everything. Moving, funny, tense, and mysterious, The Fugitives is at once a love story, a ghost story, and a crime thriller. It is also a cautionary tale of twenty-first century American lifemdash;a meditation on the meaning of identity, on the role storytelling plays in our understanding of ourselves and each other, and on the difficulty of making genuine connections in a world thatrsquo;s connected in almost every way. Exuberantly satirical, darkly enigmatic, and completely unforgettable, The Fugitives is ldquo;an entirely new kind of novel with exceptional interior monologues animated by deception, double- dealing, and a doomed affair that lends an air of existential dread to the storyrdquo; (Los Angeles Times). Praise for TRANCE "Like Don DeLillo in "Libra "and Philip Roth in "American Pastoral," Christopher Sorrentino has opened the pages of his fiction to the breadth of collective memory, and the result is one of the most humane and haunting novels I've read in years...Sorrentino possesses a searing gaze, a polymath's erudition, and a lover's ear for the frailities of human language." Jonathan Lethem ""Trance "is a work of startling insight, marvelously and masterfully evoking the grim stuff of true American nightmares." Colson Whitehead "Playful, scathing, gripping, and profound, this book is a meditation and a provocation, full of humor and menace. Sorrentino has broken new ground at the border of fiction and history." Sam Lipsyte "An ambitious, intelligent, and kaleidoscopically opulent book, remarkably evocative of the textures and tones of the seventies. Sorrentino has a talent for creating authentic, microscopic moments that capture the spirit of the era." Lydia Millet "This sprawling work is so ambitious and irreverent that it doesn't fit easily into any genre...Full of descriptions sublime in their precision..."Trance "is a pleasure ot read -- delightful and often funny." " Los Angeles Times" "[Sorrentino] remains a virtuoso, and much of the success of this book is due to his writing skill...[He] is an insightful, sensitive writer who makes you believe you're seeing what he's describing." Harvey Pekar, "The Baltimore Sun" "Big and ambitious...Its method and scope are breathtaking." " Salon.com" "Sorrentino has something of Don DeLillo's ear for American white noise -- for the hiss and crackle that fills the country's derelict spaces." " New York Times Book " "Echoes of Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, and Hunter S. Thompson..."Trance "lives up to its title -- it's a brilliant, hallucinatory fever dream of Americana, one that we have yet to wake up from." " Seattle Weekly" "A full-blooded lampoon...hilarious, satiric..."Trance"'s charming gift, among others, is respect for the reader's acuity in deciding whether it was a pretty picture. Or not." " San Francisco Chronicle" "One of the year's most surprising works of fiction...amazing...context vibrates out of the sentences, rather than being foisted on the action from above...It takes novels like this one to bring us back to the moment, to return our icons to us as flesh and blood, almost." John Freeman, "The Boston Globe" "Sorrentino's vision here is kaleidoscopic, eliding fluidly from individual to individual, taking on a wide array of points of view." David L. Ulin, "Newsday" "Transcendent...By using the skeleton of what is known to portray people whose minds no one will ever truly understand, Sorrentino gives us a new understanding of our past and future, and a fresh way to consider the ideological movement that can appear so confident in their control or resistance." " Minneapolis Star-Tribune" ""Trance "is a tour- de-force, announcing a mature and ambitious talent." " Publishers Weekly" "[A] masterfully omniscent and suspenseful novel. Braiding history with invention, devilish humor with psychological veracity, telling detail with a big-picture perspective, bursts of rapid dialogue with gorgeous description and arresting inner monologues, Sorrentino satirizes with a light yet penetrating touch." Donna Seaman, "Booklist "(starred review) "A demanding, raw, and fascinating epic." " Details" "Even more than DeLillo's "Libra "and Doctorow's "The Book of Daniel," "Trance "works to strip the 'event' of its historical cover, to not only humanize it but reduce it to the mundane and everyday..."Trance "doggedly dismantles the pedestal of celebrity and myth." " The Village Voice" "A skeptical, occasionally corrosive perspective...Sorrentino's writing is smart and vibrant, slangy when necessary, and always appropriately allusive. Jammed with acute observations and a good deal of humor." " The Times Literary Supplement "(London) "Substantial...Cleverly reinvents this story with a handsome helping of historical and contemporary satire." " The Times "(London) "A tour de force..."Trance "is a bravura epic that unfolds cinematically yet with linguistic brilliance...Tackles unfolding events from a multiplicity of perspectives with intelligence, insight, and a darkly comic flair." Tina Jackson, "Metro "(London) "A powerful satire of American myth-making and of the hidden forces that work against our attempts to discover a true history." John Burnside, "The Scotsman "(UK) "Particularly impressive is Sorrentino's protean writing...the comprehensive arc of humanity astounds. "Trance "is an epic, epoch-defining achievement, up there with the finest works by Don DeLillo." " The Sunday Telegraph "(London) "Magnificent...funnier than anything so serious has a right to be. Sorrentino hits the key notes of the era perfectly...Sorrentino's solid-gold satire, a contender for Great American Novel status, is wise to both the honor and hypocrisy of middle-class militants. Scathing and sensitive, "Trance "will make you its willing captive." " Uncut" "Sorrentino is a wickedly talented writer...His sense of humor is as sharp as it is savage...A work where unmitigated brilliance and staggering prose is interlaced." " Rain Taxi" "Christopher Sorrentino gives us "Trance, "a beautifully successful -- indeed, heroic -- attempt to restore to us what is surely one of the great American folk stories of the twentieth century. "Trance "is a full-blown opera -- an epic documentary fiction, a post-Coover "In Cold Blood"-- presenting a harmony of hundreds of points of view." " The of Contemporary Fiction" "" Praise for SOUND ON SOUND Sorrentino has used the rock book format (and his superbly pompous multitrack device) as a vehicle for a brilliant and complex novel about remembered truths and modern ennui...gasps of bright poetry...eloquent prose.