- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS; Dalkey Archive ed edition (Feb 23 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1564781836
- ISBN-13: 978-1564781833
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.1 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||
Product Details |
Product Description
Review
"Composed with dazzling and precise verbal dexterity, The Sky Changes is replete with sadness for lost love and despair over a cheapened American culture." -- Washington Post 4-6-86
"Gilbert Sorrentino is a poet, and The Sky Changes is poetry influenced by an insight both agitated and clear." -- Gwendolyn Brooks, Book Week 5-8-66
"The Sky Changes is not the glad, mad trip of Kerouac's 'On the Road' but a bitter, more adult insight into hip America." -- Kirkus 3-1-66
"The Sky Changes is the best fiction of divorce I have ever come across, a truly moving shattering experience." -- Richard Elman, Commonweal 12-5-69
"Though its tone is dominated by despair and disillusionment, The Sky Changes also offers the pleasures of Gilbert Sorrentino's intense concentration and the poignancy of those few moments when redemption seems possible." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review 4-20-86
"Gilbert Sorrentino is a poet, and The Sky Changes is poetry influenced by an insight both agitated and clear." -- Gwendolyn Brooks, Book Week 5-8-66
"The Sky Changes is not the glad, mad trip of Kerouac's 'On the Road' but a bitter, more adult insight into hip America." -- Kirkus 3-1-66
"The Sky Changes is the best fiction of divorce I have ever come across, a truly moving shattering experience." -- Richard Elman, Commonweal 12-5-69
"Though its tone is dominated by despair and disillusionment, The Sky Changes also offers the pleasures of Gilbert Sorrentino's intense concentration and the poignancy of those few moments when redemption seems possible." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review 4-20-86
Book Description
Divorce in America is the subject of Gilbert Sorrentino's relentlessly disturbing first novel. Tracing the New York-to-San Francisco journey of a family as the husband and wife try to maintain the illusion that the marriage can be rescued, The Sky Changes records the imaginable damage they inflict upon each other in order to force themselves towards divorce. Along the way, their two children become victims of the parents' failures and are dragged throughout the torment of this disintegrating marriage.
No other novel in American literature is so narrowly dedicated to recording close-up the devastating pain of a marriage falling apart and the doomed-to-fail efforts to make it work. And no other novel so perfectly captures the moral bankruptcy of the United States as a background to divorce.
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet on Amazon.ca
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
4.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Certainly, this is one of Sorrentino's best yet., Feb 2 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sky Changes (Paperback)
The man is nameless, yet we begin to know him personally. His sadness, his anger, and his frantic attempts to salvalge a marriage damaged beyond repair are emotions apparent in the pages of the book, The Sky Changes. Gilbert Sorrentino has written a compelling psychological novel in which a man travels across the contry with his children and his driver, and a wife who no longer cares for him. The man recounts his thoughts as he heads west, giving us an intimate look at the cracks of his marriage; cracks which ultimately lead to the shattering of lives. Sorrentino, who has written many books in the past, gives us one more reason to understand why he has been the recipient of many prizes for his past works. Certainly, this is one of his best yet.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Divorce in America!, Sep 2 2005
By Mark DeRespinis - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sky Changes (Paperback)
"Divorce in America" reads the large print heading on the back cover blurb of Sorrentino's novel The Sky Changes. The novel chronicles the last ailing days of a tired marriage headed precipitously towards a bitter split. The front cover shows an anonymous two-lane road, extending out and away over a hill that leads to some far beyond. Here is the road that will carry Husband and Wife, Children and Driver, across the country, on roads that lead forward always to some imagined place, some Mexico. The dynamic of relation in this marriage, and the road trip across America where it all unfolds; here is the study, subject and structure. Sorrentino has talked in interviews about his respect for the Oulipo poets, and their disciplined structures, how it frees up space for creative expression."The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit... the arbitrariness of the constraint only serves to obtain precision of execution."
Igor Stravinsky
The structure: the towns, the stops, and the things that happen there. Jacksontown, Ohio, Indianapolis, Indiana, Urbana, Illinois, Memphis, Tennessee, Jackson, Mississippi, Lawton, Oklahoma, Gallup, New Mexico, Grand Canyon, Arizona, Las Vegas, Nevada, Bakersfield, Madera, and San Francisco, California. The episodes are patched together with flashbacks and flash-forwards, an exercise in teasing out the infinite singularity and process of the end-game of a marriage.
The subject: Sorrentino enters into the silent and hidden world of soured love, and faces knife-edge tension with word-detail precision and attention, exposing the secrets and strains to all the world. This is the stuff that never gets talked about, the stuff that gets harbored in the tormented minds of those involved and subsequently hushed up when the end comes and the marriage falls apart. "Divorce in America" reads the heading on the back cover blurb. This book does what sociology can only hint at, with its statistics and social norms. Here is the source, a biting and unforgiving look at the sick state of relations in our society. And yet, there is an implicit sense of hope, that maybe if this hidden disease is exposed, that there can be a more careful and considered approach to this thing, love. But The Sky Changes is littered with broken minds and trapped hearts, skeletal souls scattered across the tired landscape of America, waiting, perhaps, for some kind of release.
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
