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Trance - by Christopher Sorrentino (Paperback)

Trance - by  Christopher Sorrentino (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>2005 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction<br>A <i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i> Favorite Book of the Year<br>A <i>Publishers Weekly </i>Top Ten Novel of the Year <p/>It is 1974 and a tiny band of self-styled urban guerrillas, calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), abducts a newspaper heiress, who then takes the guerrilla nameTania and shocks the world by choosing to remain with her former captors. Soon most of the SLA are dead, killed in a suicidal confrontation with police in Los Angeles, forcing Tania and her two remaining comrades--the pompous and abusive General Teko and his duplicitous lieutenant, Yolanda--into hiding, where they will remain for the next sixteen months. These are the months of Tania's sentimental education.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Sorrentino's vision here is kaleidoscopic, eliding fluidly from individual to individual, taking on a wide array of points of view." --<i>David L. Ulin, Newsday</i> <p/>"<i>Trance</i> is a work of startling insight, marvelously and masterfully evoking the grim stuff of true American nightmares." --<i>Colson Whitehead, author of John Henry Days</i> <p/>"This sprawling work is so ambitious and irreverent that it doesn't fit easily into any genre. . . . Full of descriptions sublime in their precision . . . <i>Trance </i>is a pleasure to read--delightful and often funny." --<i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>"Sorrentino has something of Don DeLillo's ear for American white noise--for the hiss and crackle that fills the country's derelict spaces." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"[Sorrentino] remains a virtuoso, and much of the success of this book is due to his writing skill. . . . [He] is an insightful, sensitive writer who makes you believe you're seeing what he's describing." --<i>Harvey Pekar, The Baltimore Sun</i> <p/>"Big and ambitious . . . It's method and scope are breathtaking." --<i>Salon.com</i> <p/>"<i>Trance</i> doggedly dismantles the pedestal of celebrity and myth." --<i>The Village Voice</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Christopher Sorrentino</b> is the author of a previous novel, <i>Sound on Sound</i>. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.</p>

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