Mulligan Stew (novel)
Cover to first edition hardback/paperback | |
| Author | Gilbert Sorrentino |
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| Cover artist | Kenneth R. Deardoff |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction, metafiction |
| Published | 1979 (Grove Press) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback, Paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-394-50717-7 (hc) 0-394-17086-5 (pb) |
Mulligan Stew is a postmodern novel by Gilbert Sorrentino. It was first published in 1979 by Grove Press, simultaneously in hardcover and softcover.
The book is a metafictional and parodistic examination of the creative process of writing a novel and its failing. It is dedicated to Brian O'Nolan and his "virtue hilaritas".
The title is a direct reference to the hodge-podge nature of the food. More cryptically, it is a punning allusion ("Mulligan's too") to the character Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's Ulysses.