Cadenza

by Ralph Cusack, Gilbert Sorrentino (Afterword), Gilbert Sorrentino (Designed by)

Overview

First published in Ireland in 1958, this fantastic excursion of the mind, which moves between Dublin and Dundalk on a train headed for the scrap heap after fifty years, also reminds the reader of Tristram Shandy, Finnegans Wake, Ulysses, and At Swim-Two-Birds. But while Leopold Bloom is peripatetic in his Dublin Odyssey, Cusack's Desmond locks himself in train carriage 304D and orders out sandwiches, whiskey, and beer. A brilliant tour de force melding time, place, and memory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780916583057
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	11/01/1984
Series:	Science
Pages:	227
Product dimensions:	5.54(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Ralph Cusack (1912-1965) was born in Dublin. Though trained as a painter, he settled in the south of France to grow flowers for the manufacture of perfume. He wrote one novel, Cadenza, originally published in 1958.

In addition to his books of poetry and criticism, Gilbert Sorrentino is the author of fourteen novels, including Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, The Sky Changes, and Mulligan Stew. He has received numerous grants and awards throughout his career, including the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, two Guggenheim Fellowships, two NEA Fellowships and a Lannan Literary Award.

In addition to his books of poetry and criticism, Gilbert Sorrentino is the author of fourteen novels, including Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, The Sky Changes, and Mulligan Stew. He has received numerous grants and awards throughout his career, including the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, two Guggenheim Fellowships, two NEA Fellowships and a Lannan Literary Award.

Editorial Reviews

On nearly every page is a cry and tumult of the earth and the sea's beauty and an enormous inconsequent humor. . . . His prose achieves a richness and greedy joy practically invisible in any literary works today.

Daily Telegraph [London]

It is—in capitals—A Work of Art.

The New York Times

One can only say that Ralph Cusack has a giant mind. And has seen enough horror in his time to write several bibles. . . . It's the first time I've ever had to put a book down out of fear of going on to find out what's going to happen.

J. P. Donleavy - Saturday Review