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Van Gogh's Room at Arles

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Availability:In StockContributor:Stanley Elkin, Chirs Lehmann (Introduction by)Series:American Literature (Dalkey Archive)Publish date:2003-02-28Pages:312
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781564782809ISBN-10:1564782808UPC:9781564782809Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author)Size:7.72 x 6.86 x 0.85 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCSQWE08DM
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, and jokes that leave readers torn between laughter and tears. Her Sense of Timing relates a destructive day in the life of a wheelchair-bound professor who is abandoned by his wife at the worst possible time, leaving him to preside -- helplessly -- over a party for his students that careens out of control. The second story in this collection tells of an unsuspecting commoner catapulted into royalty when she catches the wandering eye of Prince Larry of Wales. And in the title story, a community college professor searches for his scholarly identity in a land of academic giants while staying in Van Gogh's famous room at Arles and avoiding run-ins with the Club of the Portraits of the Descendants of the People Painted by Vincent Van Gogh.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781564782809ISBN-10:1564782808UPC:9781564782809Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author)Size:7.72 x 6.86 x 0.85 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCSQWE08DM
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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