Frank Lentricchia

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1980
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • After the New Criticism

  • Introducing Don Delillo-P

    If you want to find out what a rock critic, a syndicated columnist, and scholars of American literature have to say about one of America’s most important contemporary novelists, turn to Introducing Don DeLillo. Placing the author’s work in a cult...

  • Johnny Critelli and the Knifemen

    Two short novels, one about three generations of an Italian-American family in 1950s New York and the other about a respectable gynecologist who turns his self-hatred on everyone around him echo the themes of family and violence in relationships. 10,...

  • Lucchesi and the Whale

    Lucchesi and The Whale is an unusual work of fiction by noted author and critic Frank Lentricchia. Its central character, Thomas Lucchesi Jr., is a college professor in the American heartland whose obsessions and compulsions include traveling to visi...

  • Lucchesi and the Whale - CL

    Lucchesi and The Whale is an unusual work of fiction by noted author and critic Frank Lentricchia. Its central character, Thomas Lucchesi Jr., is a college professor in the American heartland whose obsessions and compulsions include traveling to visi...

  • SAQ: A General Issue Including Poetry, Fiction, Criticism, and Photo-Essays

  • The Book of Ruth

    Ruth is not exactly a conventional sequel to his novel Lucchesi and the Whale. Lentricchia has included two characters from the first book--the vaguely autobiographical protagonist, writer Thomas Lucchesi, and Ruth Cohen, who appeared briefly as a fl...

  • Music of the Inferno, The

    An unusual, deft, often piercing meditation on storytelling, ethnicity, and the Italian/American experience.At eighteen Robert Tagliaferro, an orphan of ambiguous racial and ethnic identity, disappears from his hometown of Utica, New York. At sixty h...

  • The Italian Actress

    Set in Italy, Frank Lentricchia's sixth novel features a has-been Italian American filmmaker, once internationally acclaimed for the beauty of his images and his experiments in pornography but now stuck in prolonged creative drought. At an obscure fi...



  • The Sadness of Antonioni

    Part Mafia murder mystery, part novel of ideas, but most of all a love story, The Sadness of Antonioni follows Hank Morelli, a young assistant professor of film who is obsessed with Antonioni's L'Avventura. As he embarks on an unlikely romance with a...

  • The Portable Lentricchia

    Fiction. THE PORTABLE LENTRICCHIA is an ideal entrance into the fictional world of the novelist described as "the greatest unknown writer in America." This thrilling selection of Frank Lentricchia's fiction -- from his debut Johnny Critelli to the fo...

  • The Accidental Pallbearer

    Introducing a gritty new detective series set in the bleak hinterlands of upstate new YorkWashed-up private investigator Eliot Conte would rather be teaching American literature and listening to opera than taking pictures of spouses in flagrante deli...

  • The Dog Killer of Utica

    “Vivid and unnerving . . . Eliot Conte is an instant original.” -- The Washington PostSomeone's shooting dogs in Utica . . . Ex-PI Eliot Conte (“part Mike Hammer and part William S. Burroughs,” according to The Washington Post) thought he’...

  • The Morelli Thing

    The unsolved murder of Fred Morelli, in Utica, New York, in 1947, comes to the fore more than 60 years later when 15-year-old Angel, hacker extraordinaire, has his guitar smashed by Victor Bocca, one of the original suspects in the murder. Angel hack...

  • A Place in the Dark/The Glamour of Evil

    This is a flip book with two novels: A Place In The Dark braids history, fiction and politics. It is set in Utica with substantial passages of painful, site-specific memories of the characters of both the Vietnam war and the American engagement in Ir...

  • Manhattan Meltdown

    Two men, no longer young, and friends from childhood, fly to NYC—each with a secret purpose unknown to the other. They arrive just as COVID-19 explodes across the city’s 5 boroughs. One of the men (white) has come to Manhattan to confront...

  • The Falcons of Desire

    A beautiful stranger from Italy appears in sleepy Utica, N.Y., carrying a deadly secret that goes back generations. Her movements through the city ensnare a young couple and their extended family, a college professor, a mafia don, and a professional ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frank Lentricchia has published 17 books.

The next book by Frank Lentricchia, The Falcons of Desire, will be published in November 2024.

The first book by Frank Lentricchia, After the New Criticism, was published in January 1980.

No. Frank Lentricchia does not write books in series.
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