Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things Macedonian as experienced by protagonists Félix

as experienced by protagonists Félix and Lívia in 19th century Rio de Janeiro

engulfing its readers and holding them till the last page

" —Los Angeles Review of Books

Walter Abish called it “an unsettling dark familial jewel

And though he is aloof

Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things Macedonian as experienced by protagonists Félixby Gilbert Sorrentino Publication Date: 03 01 2007 ISBN: 9781564784704 Wildly comic and bitterly satiric, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things is Gilbert Sorrentino's ruthless, and timeless, attack on the New York art world of the 1950s and '60s. Among the best of Sorrentino's novels, Imaginative Qualities is also, quite simply, the best American novel ever written about writers and artists..