Of Stanley Elkin, The New York Times Book Review has said "no serious writer in this country can match him." In this 1991 National Book Award Finalist, Elkin combineshcockian plot as he narrates the mysterious events that take place in 40 hours in the life of Bobbo Druff.

The Macguffin (Contemporary American Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

ELKIN, Stanley

Literary

Penguin??Books

These three delicious novellas, from "a master of language and black humor" ( New York Times), demonstrate the author's mastery of the roller-cosater sentence, hair-pin narrative twist, and the joke that leaves readers torn between tears and laughter.

Van Gogh's Room at Arles: Three Novellas (Contemporary American Fiction)

This comic triptych traces the holdup of a liquor store in Minneapolis to its inevitable Judgement Day consequences, following the life and afterlife experiences of richly varied characters including the damned in hell and the saints in heaven

The Living End

Contemporary

JONATHAN CAPE.

Dick Gibson Show

Fiction. A re-print of the fifth of Stanley Elkin's 17 published works, originally published in 1970, this novel anticipates talk radio and its crazed hosts. Characters include Arnold the Memory Expert, Bernie Perk the burning pharmacist, Henry Harper the 9-year-old orphan millionaire, a woman obsessed by pierced ears, an evil hypnotist, various con men and swindlers and Dick Gibson himself, a character who understands exactly what Americans want and gives it to them. "Stanley Elkin's imagination should be declared a national landmark." (--Paul Auster)

New York Random 1971

Ben Flesh inherits an unusual deathbed request: the prime interest rate. This wildly comic, energetic, and virtuoso novel surveys the sordid American scene with an eye that reflects the chaos of our society with a brilliance and clarity seldom encountered. As William Gass writes in his foreword, "Elkin composes a song from the clutter of the country, a chant out of that 'cargo of crap' that comprises our culture. . . ."This is vintage Elkin, America made Flesh through a hero who can't see the forest for the picnic tables and through a tale whose central metaphor is the franchise, that self-replicating mechanism that has sanitized and saturated our landscape.

The franchiser

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Dorothy Bliss, a widow from Chicago, moves into a Miami condominium complex and leaves behind her strictly defined lifestyle as she begins to build new relationships

Mrs. Ted Bliss

Harper-perennial

Killed during a senseless holdup, kindhearted Ellerbee finds himself on a whirlwind tour of a distressingly familiar theme park Heaven and inner-city Hell, where he learns the truth about God's love and wrath. Reprint.

Avon/Books

Breaking the law in a foolhardy attempt to accommodate his customers, unscrupulous department store owner Leo Feldman finds himself in jail and at the mercy of the warden, who tries to break Leo of his determination to stay bad. Reprint.

Bad Man

Doomed by a thousand-year-old curse to serve important personages throughout the centuries, George Mills loves and follows various lieges, from a stableboy ancestor in the First Crusade to a modern-day furniture mover. Reprint.

George Mills

United States

The Dick Gibson Show

His fourth book and third novel about the radio business.

Genre Fiction

Random House]

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The Macguffin (Contemporary American Fiction)

Van Gogh's Room at Arles: Three Novellas (Contemporary American Fiction)

The Living End

Dick Gibson Show

The franchiser

Mrs. Ted Bliss

The Living End

Bad Man

George Mills

The Dick Gibson Show