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Stanley Elkin: A Comprehensive Bibliography

William M. Robins

This extensive bibliography addresses every item by award-winning author Stanley Elkin, including all of his novels, short stories, drama, non-print media adaptations, quotes, editorial ventures, and more. This volume also…

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The Dick Gibson Show

Stanley Elkin

National Book Award finalist: Look who’s on the Dick Gibson Radio Show : Arnold the Memory Expert ( I’ve memorized the entire West Coast shoreline - except for cloud cover…

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Poetica Para Acosadores: Nueve Cuentos de Violencia, Locura Y Soledad

Stanley Elkin

The nine stories that make up this collection, published originally in 1965, give readers the chance to get to know one of the most exuberant and radical North American prose…

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The MacGuffin

Stanley Elkin

Bobbo Druff, a coca leaf-chewing street commissioner on the cusp of just-past-it, transforms his mid-life crisis into a paranoid web of mysterious events in a plot reminiscent of Hitchcock.

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Mrs.Ted Bliss

Stanley Elkin

Published posthumously in 1995, Mrs. Ted Bliss tells the story of an eighty-two-year-old widow starting life anew after the death of her husband. As Dorothy Bliss learns to cope with…

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Shouting Down the Silence: A Biography of Stanley Elkin

David C. Dougherty

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. This…

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Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life

Stanley Elkins

This third edition of Stanley M. Elkin’s classic study offers two new chapters by the author. The first, Slavery and Ideology, considers the discussion and criticism occasioned by this controversial…

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Review of Contemporary Fiction: Stanley Elkin/Alasdair Gray

Arthur M. Saltzman, Stanley Elkin: An Introduction/Peter J. Bailey, ‘A Hat Where There Never Was a Hat’: Stanley Elkin’s Fifteenth Interview/Stanley Elkin, Words and Music/William Gass, Stanley Elkin: An Anecdote/Jerome…

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Boswell: A Modern Comedy

Stanley Elkin,Elkin Stanley

Boswell is Stanley Elkin’s first and funniest novel: the comic odyssey of a twentieth-century groupie who collects celebrities as his insurance policy against death. James Boswell–strong man, professional wrestler (his…

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Comic Sense: Reading Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth

Thomas Pughe

(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…

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Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Volume 2: Truman Capote-Stanley Elkin

This series contains indepth analytical reference guides to 463 major writers of long fiction. The series has an accessible style and format that allow readers to zero in on precise…

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Pieces of Soap: Essays

Stanley Elkin

With a wickedly witty touch, Elkin’s essays takes readers on a tour of American life in the 20th century.

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Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers

Stanley Elkin

This imagination of Elkin’s sneaks up, tickles, surprises, shocks and kills. It makes stories that are deadly funny. The New York Times

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The Living End

Stanley Elkin

A quintessential Elkin protagonist, Ellerbee is a good husband, a good employer, a good sport who cares greatly about his fellow human beings–until he is killed during a senseless liquor-store…

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Rabbi of Lud

Stanley Elkin

Rabbi Jerry Goldkorn resides in Lud, New Jersey, where Jews from the surrounding states come to bury their dead.

Distressed by the lack of living children in the area, the…

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Van Gogh’s Room at Arles

Stanley Elkin

The three novellas collected in Van Gogh’s Room at Arles demonstrate once again Stanley Elkin’s mastery of the English language, with exuberant rants on almost every page, unexpected plot twists…

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George Mills

Stanley Elkin,Chris Lehmann

Considered by many to be Elkin’s magnum opus, George Mills is, an ambitious, digressive and endlessly entertaining account of the 1,000 year history of the George Millses. From toiling as…

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The Age of Federalism

Stanley Elkins,Eric Mckitrick

Covering a wide variety of concerns–political, cultural, economic, diplomatic, and military–the authors provide a sweeping historical account of America’s first years, weaving biographical insights with keen analysis and reflection. A…

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Bad Man

Stanley Elkin

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…

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The Founding Fathers: Young Men of the Revolution

Professor of History Stanley Elkins (Smith College),Eric McKitrick

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The Founding Fathers: Young Men of the Revolution

Professor of History Stanley Elkins (Smith College),Eric McKitrick

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The Age of Federalism

Stanley Elkins (Professor of History, Professor of History, Smith College),Eric McKitrick (Emeritus Professor of History, Emeritus Professor of History, Columbia University)

This book is a synthesis of this crucial period in history. It gives us an analytical survey of the period between 1788 and 1800, when America was struggling to set…

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Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane

Derek Hirst (William Eliot Smith Professor of History, Washington University, St Louis),Steven N. Zwicker (Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English, Washington University, St Louis)

Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane studies the poetry and polemics of one of the greatest of early modern writers, a poet of immense lyric talent and political importance. The…

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