Cadenza

Ralph Cusack

ISBN 10: 0916583058 / ISBN 13: 9780916583057

Published by Deep Vellum Publishing Nov 1984, 1984

About this Item

Neuware - Like Melies's film The Hallucinations of Baron Munchausen, Ralph Cusack's Cadenzagives us a hero, Desmond, who finds himself caught between two worlds, the night before and the morning after, the past and the present, the world that is and the world that was.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cadenza
• Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing Nov 1984
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0916583058
• ISBN 13: 9780916583057
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 201W x 141H x 17D millimeters 201 millimeters width by 141 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 281 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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.