Fletcher Hanks/Gilbert Sorrentino (Books Acquired, 7.12.2012)

by Biblioklept

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I’ve been wanting to get my mitts on this Fletcher Hanks collection since I first read about it in The Believer five years ago. Finally came across a used copy in pristine shape.

It’s really, really fucking weird. Sample page; full write-up forthcoming:

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I’ve been itching to read Gilbert Sorrentino’s Mulligan Stew for a while. This copy may or may not be a first edition paperback—the rejection letters in the front are on a different type of paper than the rest of the novel (color/stock). It’s a big book—I’m finishing up a rereading of 2666, so maybe this one will jump in front of Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual. Thoughts?

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2 Comments to “Fletcher Hanks/Gilbert Sorrentino (Books Acquired, 7.12.2012)”

  1. Perec before Sorrentino, for sure! The latter is a bit too derivative of “At Swim Two Birds”, the former is primo oulipian catnip …

  2. I vote Perec, too. I’ve been dying to read his stuff.

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