Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things Macedonian Hortense in Exile continues the

Hortense in Exile continues the Hortense series in grand style

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Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things Macedonian Hortense in Exile continues theby 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..