THE SKY CHANGES

by Gilbert Sorrentino ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

A sullen husband has uprooted his family to take them on a trip cross-country in an attempt to change his wife's frigidity and his own self-doubt and ""blind, stifled rage."" But the husband finds that ""nothing has change but the sky, the land."" The difference in space only accentuates the event of the marital breakup. The trip is no salvation: it is grubby and sad, his encounters with his friends around the country nasty. The husband who had tried in this journey, as in the bleak fields of mid-America, to find yellow in wormy dead corncobs, ends in failure and humiliation. It's a world of rotten people and situations, a world where people seem to let things happen to them. The emotions of the husband become exhausted in his striving to be a ""nice guy"" to the wonderful friends who abuse and cuckold. It's not sophistication that has the wife's lover as best man at the wedding, but the hunger to be loved, when the ""I'm sorry"" always elicits the painful"" It's okay."" This is not the road trip of Kerouac's Dean Moriarity, glad, mad, digging it all; it is a bitter, more adult insight into hip America.

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ISBN: 1564781836

Page Count: -

Publisher: Hill & Wang

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1966

Categories: FICTION