Blue Pastoral by Gilbert Sorrentino - 9781564782519

Name: Blue Pastoral by Gilbert Sorrentino - 9781564782519
Brand: Dalkey Archive Press

Dalkey Archive Press

Blue PastoralAuthor(s): Gilbert Sorrentino\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Dalkey Archive Press, United States\nImprint: Dalkey Archive Press\nISBN-13: 9781564782519, 978-1564782519\nSynopsis\n\""I see him now! Somewhere out there in that gloaming that we call the Past that Time forgot--his ratty beard and frizzy hair, his hearty grease sandwiches, his rusted bicycle clips. An unlikely hero, your good faces seem to say...\""And so we meet our hero Serge \""Blue\"" Gavotte, a modern-day Candide who quits his job, mounts a piano atop a broken-down pushcart and sets off with wife and child on a visionary quest across contemporary America in search of the \""Perfect Musical Phrase.\"" From the dismal plains of the Midwest to the technicolor sunsets of the Southwest, Blue refuses to let financial troubles, lecherous professors or the burdensome weight of his piano prevent him from reaching his final [url] work of art masquerading as artifice, \""Blue Pastoral\"" is a madhouse production whose hila.