Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things aphorisms His description of writing continually

His description of writing continually returns to a number of themes

They indulge their incestuous desires and bizarre fantasies in a room in the Plaza Santa Domingo

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and offers accessible entry to the experimental writing Stein valued and promoted most—the original modernist novel by the era’s most influential author

Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things aphorisms His description of writing continuallyby 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..