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Reading Stanley Elkin
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Author : Peter J. Bailey
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1985
Reading Stanley Elkin written by Peter J. Bailey and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with categories.
The Living End
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Author : Stanley Elkin
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2010-10-26
The Living End written by Stanley Elkin and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-26 with Fiction categories.
Elkin’s darkly comic novel of the afterlife—the story of one man’s redemptive journey to hell and back When he is killed during a holdup at his Minneapolis liquor store, Ellerbee’s bad luck is only beginning. After a short stint in heaven, Ellerbee is banished to hell, abruptly and without explanation. What follows is a surreal and memorable adventure that brings Ellerbee face-to-face not only with his murderer’s accomplice, but also with God, Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and a host of others, all in his quest for salvation unlike any other. Moving and witty, The Living End is a hilarious send-up of afterlife clichés and a masterful exploration of the absurdities of human existence. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.
The Franchiser
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Author : Stanley Elkin
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2010-10-26
The Franchiser written by Stanley Elkin and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-26 with Fiction categories.
The comic story of a man’s obsessive quest to build a fast food empire across America For the better part of the 1970s, entrepreneur Ben Flesh could expand his business kingdom with the snap of his fingers. His fast food restaurants and electronics stores were all a part of his rapidly growing domain, remaking America one enterprise at a time. But when a series of personal and professional catastrophes strike unexpectedly, Ben finds himself on the verge of losing it all. Hailed as one of Stanley Elkin’s greatest works, The Franchiser is a biting satire of American consumerism and the story of one man’s all-consuming determination to create his lasting legacy, one business at a time. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.
The Magic Kingdom
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Author : Mo
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2014-08-05
The Magic Kingdom written by Mo and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-05 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
In a house near a beautiful forest, a new prince is born, living close to the mansion of his grandfather, the King. The prince moves to the city as a very young child, and there he learns how to use magic and how to play many different games. When he returned to the mansion that he had visited as a baby, he soon realizes something wonderful: his crayons have magically become rainbows! Using magic, he sets out to make the world a perfect place. In this children’s book, a young prince discovers that the reward of magic can make him as great as he wants to be and allows him to work to make the world a perfect place.
The Dick Gibson Show
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Author : Stanley Elkin
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2010-10-26
The Dick Gibson Show written by Stanley Elkin and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-26 with Fiction categories.
A radio host’s rise is the fodder for this “funny, melancholy, frightening . . . absolutely American” National Book Award finalist (The New York Times Book Review). Since childhood, Dick Gibson has longed for a successful radio career to make him a household name. Seeking to hone his craft, Dick travels from stations in Nebraska and New Jersey to the Armed Forces Radio in the Pacific Theater during the Second World War, interviewing crooks, con artists, and hypnotists along the way. His show ignites the imaginations of all who listen to it—until one fateful night when a studio guest’s irresistible influence on Dick and all those listening to him will change their lives forever. Spirited and compelling, The Dick Gibson Show is a laugh-out-loud journey through the world of talk radio and a compulsively readable account of one man’s descent into the dark echo chamber of American media. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.
Pieces Of Soap
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Author : Stanley Elkin
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2016-11-22
Pieces Of Soap written by Stanley Elkin and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-22 with Literary Collections categories.
With a wickedly witty touch, Elkin’s essays takes readers on a tour of American life in the 20th century. Stanley Elkin was one of our great American writers. “A divine exploiter of the idiocies and intricacies of our language,” as John Irving put it, and nowhere is that more clear than this collection of essays, which find Elkin wresting hilarity and heartbreak from the most unlikely of sources.
Stanley Elkin
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Author : David C. Dougherty
language : en
Publisher: Twayne Publishers
Release Date : 1991
Stanley Elkin written by David C. Dougherty and has been published by Twayne Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shouting Down The Silence
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Author : David C Dougherty
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2010-10-01
Shouting Down The Silence written by David C Dougherty and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Shouting Down the Silence presents the first complete biography of Stanley Elkin, a preeminent novelist who consistently won high marks from critics but whose complexities of style seemed destined to elude the popular acclaim he hoped to attain. From the publication of his second novel, A Bad Man, in 1967 to his death in 1995, Elkin was tormented by the desire for both material and artistic success. Elkin's novels were taught in colleges and universities, his fiction received high praise from critics and reviewers (two of his novels won National Book Critics Circle Awards), and his short stories were widely anthologized--and yet he was unable to achieve renown beyond the avant-garde, or to escape the stigma of being an "academic writer." He wanted to be Faulkner, but he had trouble being Elkin. Drawing on personal interviews and an intimate knowledge of Elkins's life and works, David C. Dougherty captures Elkin's early life as the son of a charismatic, intimidating, and remarkably successful Jewish immigrant from Russia, as well as his later career at Washington University in St. Louis. A frequent participant at the annual Bread Loaf Writers' conference, he was the friend--and sometime antagonist--of other important writers, particularly Saul Bellow, William Gass, Howard Nemerov, and Robert Coover. Despite failed attempts to bridge the gap from his academic post to wide popular success, Elkin continued to write essays, stories, and novels that garnered unerring praise. His was a classic dilemma of an intellectual aesthete loath to make use of the common devices of popular appeal. The book details the ambition, the success, the friction, and the foibles of a writer who won fame, but not the fame he wanted.
Comic Sense
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Author : Thomas Pughe
language : en
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Release Date : 2013-03-09
Comic Sense written by Thomas Pughe and has been published by Birkhäuser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
The idea for this study came to me in the course of my reading of innova tive US-American! fiction of the last three decades. I observed that much of it is cast in the comic mode - or, more precisely, that there seems to be in contemporary fiction an affinity between 'innovation' and 'the comic' and that this affinity, furthermore, appears to be characteristic of postmo dernism. It is obvious, at the same time, that comic has become an elusive and, more often than not, a disputable category. Frederick Karl, in his sur vey of American Fictions 1940-1980, maintains, for instance, that much comic writing consists in ridicule that lacks deeper intellectual and cul tural roots. "Wit and mockery," he notes, "by themselves have little lasting value. Even in the best of such fiction, Gravity's Rainbow, one is made aware of attenuated skits stiched onto previous segments, rather than baked in by a defined point of view. " (Karl: 27) Such assessments of course challenge my view that the comic is in significant ways connected with what is innovative in postmodernist US-American fiction. Yet the term comic -or related terms like humour, parody, irony and so fort- is regularly and heavily employed in discussions or reviews of con temporary fiction.
The Macguffin
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Author : Stanley Elkin
language : en
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Release Date : 2000
The Macguffin written by Stanley Elkin and has been published by Dalkey Archive Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Fiction categories.
As he's chauffeured about in his official limousine, aging City commissioner of Streets Bobbo Druff comes to a frightening realization: he's lost force, the world has started to condescend to him. His once fear-inspiring figure has become everyone's "little old lady." In retaliation, Druff constructs a paranoid plot, his "MacGuffin" within which)he believes) everyone is out to get him. with unabashed enthusiasm Druff starts an illicit affair (in order to incriminate himself), instigates fights with his employees, invents lies for his family- in short, everythingything in his power to create a world in which he is placed safely and firmly at the scandalous center.