 His first published novel, "Sound on Sound" (1995), draws upon innovations pioneered in the work of his father, but also contains echoes of many other modernist and postmodernist writers.The book is structured according to the format of a multitrack recording session, with corresponding section titles ("Secondary Percussion", "Vocals", "Playback", and so forth).His second novel, "Trance" (2005), an epic fictional treatment of the Patty Hearst saga, used many of the same experimental techniques as "Sound on Sound", but, according to Sorrentino, incorporated them more carefully and subtly into the text.