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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication date
February 9, 2016
Pages
322
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781476795744
ISBN-10
1476795746
Dimensions
1 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.28 lbs.
Original list price
$26.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: From National Book Award finalist Christopher Sorrentino, a bracing, kaleidoscopic look at love and obsession, loyalty and betrayal, race and identity, compulsion and free willâ¦
Sandy Mulligan is in trouble. To escape his turbulent private life and the scandal thatâs maimed his public reputation, heâs retreated from Brooklyn to the quiet Michigan town where he hopes 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 beâa fact suspected by Kat Danhoff, an ambitious Chicago reporter of elusive ethnic origins who arrives to investigate a theft from a nearby Indian-run casino. Salteauâs possible role in the crime could be the key to the biggest story of her stalled career. Bored, emotionally careless, and sexually reckless, Katâs sudden appearance in town immediately attracts a restive Sandy.
As the novel weaves among these characters uncovering the conflicts and contradictions between their stories, we learn that all three are fugitives of one kind or another, harboring secrets that threaten to overturn their invented lives and the stories they tell to spin them into being. In their growing involvement, each becomes a pawn in the othersâ gamesâall of them just one mistake from losing everything.
The signature Sorrentino touches that captivated readers of Trance are all here: sparkling dialogue, narrative urgency, mordant wit, and inventive, crystalline proseâbut it is the deeply imagined interior lives of its characters that set this novel apart. 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 lifeâa 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 thatâs connected in almost every way.
Exuberantly satirical, darkly enigmatic, and completely unforgettable, The Fugitives is an event that reaffirms Sorrentinoâs position as an American writer of the first rank.
Sandy Mulligan is in trouble. To escape his turbulent private life and the scandal thatâs maimed his public reputation, heâs retreated from Brooklyn to the quiet Michigan town where he hopes 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 beâa fact suspected by Kat Danhoff, an ambitious Chicago reporter of elusive ethnic origins who arrives to investigate a theft from a nearby Indian-run casino. Salteauâs possible role in the crime could be the key to the biggest story of her stalled career. Bored, emotionally careless, and sexually reckless, Katâs sudden appearance in town immediately attracts a restive Sandy.
As the novel weaves among these characters uncovering the conflicts and contradictions between their stories, we learn that all three are fugitives of one kind or another, harboring secrets that threaten to overturn their invented lives and the stories they tell to spin them into being. In their growing involvement, each becomes a pawn in the othersâ gamesâall of them just one mistake from losing everything.
The signature Sorrentino touches that captivated readers of Trance are all here: sparkling dialogue, narrative urgency, mordant wit, and inventive, crystalline proseâbut it is the deeply imagined interior lives of its characters that set this novel apart. 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 lifeâa 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 thatâs connected in almost every way.
Exuberantly satirical, darkly enigmatic, and completely unforgettable, The Fugitives is an event that reaffirms Sorrentinoâs position as an American writer of the first rank.
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from Simon & Schuster (February 9, 2016)
9781476795744 | details & prices | 322 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.28 lbs | List price $26.00
About: From National Book Award finalist Christopher Sorrentino, a bracing, kaleidoscopic look at love and obsession, loyalty and betrayal, race and identity, compulsion and free will⦠Sandy Mulligan is in trouble.
About: From National Book Award finalist Christopher Sorrentino, a bracing, kaleidoscopic look at love and obsession, loyalty and betrayal, race and identity, compulsion and free will⦠Sandy Mulligan is in trouble.
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