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Christopher Sorrentino

Christopher Sorrentino’s second novel, Trance, was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award. His first novel was Sound on Sound. He has contributed fiction, essays, and criticism to The Baffler, Bookforum, Conjunctions, Fence and McSweeney’s, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn.

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Christopher Sorrentino | Portrait of My Father

Christopher Sorrentino

‘Those who strongly resemble one parent will recall the unsettling feeling of gazing into old photos and seeing, in relation to themselves, not the remote similarity of the grown-up sitting across the dinner table, but an exact likeness.’

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