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The Dick Gibson Show

The Dick Gibson Show - Paperback

by Stanley Elkin
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Availability:In StockContributor:Stanley Elkin, Christopher Lehmann-HauptSeries:American LiteraturePublish date:1998-12-01Pages:378
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781564781987ISBN-10:1564781984UPC:9781564781987Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:8.52 x 5.57 x 0.93 inchesWeight:1Product ID:SCENFF1ASE

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 it to them.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781564781987ISBN-10:1564781984UPC:9781564781987Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:8.52 x 5.57 x 0.93 inchesWeight:1Product ID:SCENFF1ASE
Elkin, Stanley: - 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 Mills (1982) and Mrs. Ted Bliss (1995), as well as the National Book Award finalists The Dick Gibson Show (1972), Searches and Seizures (1974), and The MacGuffin (1991). His book of novellas, Van Gogh's Room at Arles, was a finalist for the PEN Faulkner Award.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

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Stanley Elkin, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

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Stanley Elkin

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