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The Dick Gibson Show (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Stanley Elkin
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Description for The Dick Gibson Show (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Paperback. Num Pages: 335 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 and fog banks"). Bernie Perk, the burning pharmacist. Henry Harper, the nine-year old orphan millionaire, terrified of being adopted. The woman whose life revolves around pierced lobes. An evil hypnotist. Swindlers. Con-men. And Dick Gibson himself. Anticipating talk radio and its crazed hosts, Stanley Elkin creates a brilliant comic world held together by American manias and maniacs in all their forms, and a character who perfectly understands what Americans want and gives ... Read more
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 and fog banks"). Bernie Perk, the burning pharmacist. Henry Harper, the nine-year old orphan millionaire, terrified of being adopted. The woman whose life revolves around pierced lobes. An evil hypnotist. Swindlers. Con-men. And Dick Gibson himself. Anticipating talk radio and its crazed hosts, Stanley Elkin creates a brilliant comic world held together by American manias and maniacs in all their forms, and a character who perfectly understands what Americans want and gives ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
335
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564781987
SKU
V9781564781987
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Ref
99-15
About Stanley Elkin
Stanley Elkin (1930-1995) was an award-winning author of novels, short stories, and essays. Born in the Bronx, Elkin received his BA and PhD from the University of Illinois and in 1960 became a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis where he taught until his death. His critically acclaimed works include the National Book Critics Circle Award-winners George ... Read more
Reviews for The Dick Gibson Show (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
“Stanley Elkin’s third novel, The Dick Gibson Show...squeezes the blackheads behind the ears of your imagination; it’s a Diane Arbus walk on the unreconciled side. It’s among the most powerful and funny American novels I know....it’s worth noting how fully this novel, which is set mostly in the two decades after World War II, anticipates the daily purge that is ... Read more