Biography - Elkin, Stanley L(awrence) (1930-1995): An ...
 Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 16 Publication Date: 2004-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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The Dick Gibson Show (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Sidesplitting masterpiece: The neglect accorded this brilliant novel is criminal. I'll put it simply: you will *never*, repeat *never* read a funnier book. Not only is it crammed with gags that would make the Farrelly Bros. blush, it is also a genuine [... more]
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Van Gogh's Room at Arles: Three Novellas (American ...
Three involving, surprise-filled tales: Van Gogh's Room At Arles is a collection of three original novellas by Stanley Elkin. A wheelchair-bound professor is overwhelmed by a student party that catapults to extravagant heights; a commoner suddenly [... more]
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A Bad Man
Starts off promising...: This book started out very well, with the interesting premise of a properous businessman who grows more and more unscrupulous and eventually winds up in jail. The early details of the man's youth with his mentally unbalanced, [... more]
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The MacGuffin
Highly recommended reading.: Aging City Commissioner of Streets Bobbo Druff, in an effort to hang on to his persona of authority and power, constructs a "MacGuffin", a paranoid plot where everyone is out to get him. Druff starts an illicit [... more]
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The Magic Kingdom (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Love, death, and a malevolent Mickey: There's nothing quite like the experience of readiing a Stanley Elkin novel. The bizarre events, the over-the-top characters, and the sentences -- long, winding sentences filled with tangential details and [... more]
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Boswell: A Modern Comedy (American Literature (Dalkey ...
I have seen the light!: When I first began to read Boswell, I can honestly say that I thought it was dull and boring. What's the point of this book? is what I thought to myself. But as I read on, I began to see the light, the light of comedy in [... more]
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The Rabbi of Lud (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Author: Stanley Elkin Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781564782700 Edition: 1st Dalkey Archive ed ISBN: 1564782700 Number Of Pages: 277 Publication Date: 2001-05 [... more]
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George Mills
Dazzling: Elkin is about as good as it gets when it comes to fiction (modern, postmodern, classical or otherwise), and GM, while not his best (as he claimed) is awfully good. In reading his novels and stories, one needs to simply go with it: there's a [... more]
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George Mills
Dazzling: Elkin is about as good as it gets when it comes to fiction (modern, postmodern, classical or otherwise), and GM, while not his best (as he claimed) is awfully good. In reading his novels and stories, one needs to simply go with it: there's a [... more]
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Searches and Seizures
Three Novellas by a Great Poet: Stanley Elkin had a wonderful gift for colorful language and a breezy style, coupled with a narrative gift that brought the reader inside the heads of his characters. "The Bailbondsman," "The Making of [... more]
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The Franchiser: A Novel (American Literature (Dalkey ...
This is the most accurate Bicentennial picture of America.: You won't come acoss a more side-splittingly funny portrait of America in 1976 than what Elkin gives us here. I don't know which is the more: the humor in America that is depressing or the [... more]
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