Stanley Elkin
1) George Mills
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An age-old family curse fuels this National Book Critics Circle Award winner: "Elkin's imagination should be declared a national landmark" (Paul Auster).
Since the time of the First Crusade, every generation of the Mills family has been consigned by fate to an unfulfilling, servile existence. And each successive Mills has had a son, George, to perpetuate the family plight through history. Whether a stable hand in feudal Europe or a prisoner...Author
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Open Road Media
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2010
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Three witty and poignant novellas from a twentieth-century literary master at the peak of his craft Van Gogh’s Room at Arles is Stanley Elkin’s second collection of novellas, a razor-sharp exploration of three characters suffering under the weight of intellectual, physical, and social burdens. In the collection’s title story, Elkin writes of an insecure professor’s scholarly retreat with the...
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Eddy Bale's twelve-year-old son died after a terrible, drawn-out illness. Now, determined to help alleviate the suffering of other sick children, Eddy plans to take a group of seven terminally ill youths on a dream vacation to Disney World. Accompanied by four eccentric chaperones, Eddy and the kids embark on what is meant to be a magical retreat that quickly devolves into a series of disasters when the kids turn out to be more full of life than anyone...
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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,...
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Magic Kingdom es el reino mágico de Disney World en Orlando. Un sueño para la mayor parte de los niños del planeta, un lugar encantado donde encontrarse con los personajes de dibujos animados más famosos del mundo y a donde Eddy Bale -destrozado por la pérdida de su hijo Liam a causa de una rara enfermedad- decide llevar a siete niños ingleses con patologías incurables. A través de un estilo único por su elegancia y precisión, y de su especial...
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Three novellas filled with humor and insight by one of America's modern literary masters. In Searches & Seizures, Elkin tells the story of the criminal, the lovelorn, and the grieving, each searching desperately for fulfillment - while on the verge of receiving much more than they bargained for. Infused with Elkin's signature wit and richly drawn characters, "The Bailbondsman," "The Making of Ashenden," and "The Condominium" are the creations of a...
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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...
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A municipal employee sets out to unravel a murder - and save himself from the split personality that is pushing him to the brink. At age fifty-eight, Robert Druff's destructive alter ego has begun to take over his life. Frustrated with his job as Commissioner of the Streets and desperate to protect his aura of power, Druff injects himself into the middle of a conspiracy revolving around the death of his son's girlfriend - and everyone, from his employees...
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Elkin's striking debut: The story of one man's comic attempts at immortality. James Boswell is a professional strongman and a wrestler. He is also a loveable leech who amasses friends of wealth and influence as his own insurance policy against death, an obsession that leads him from coast to coast, crashing parties and mentioning any celebrity whose name will grant him an ounce of social currency. But when those around him begin dying, Boswell is...
10) The Rabbi of Lud
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A small-town Rabbi's quiet life is turned upside down when his only daughter drops a bombshell. The only long-term occupants of Lud, New Jersey, reside in its cemeteries,a fact that suits Rabbi Jerry Goldkorn just fine. Never particularly passionate about his religious calling, Rabbi Goldkorn spends his days officiating funerals and burying the dead in the local cemetery. His life is simple by design - until one day his daughter's scandalous rebellion...
11) El garante
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El Fenicio es un agente de fianzas que trabaja en una época de criminalidad endémica en la ciudad de Cincinnati. Su profesión lo convierte en una persona dura, sórdida y sin ningún tipo de compasión que se deleita con el poder que puede ejercer sobre sus clientes. Si tras pagar su fianza estos deciden eludir la justicia, Main -auténtico nombre del Fenicio- puede utilizar todos los medios a su alcance para hacerlos comparecer frente al tribunal....
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Los nueve cuentos que componen esta colección, publicada originalmente en 1965, dieron a conocer a una de las voces más exuberantes y radicales de la prosa norteamericana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, que apenas se había traducido a nuestro idioma.
A pesar de que, como el propio autor reconoce en el prólogo de esta edición, los relatos pueden adscribirse al realismo, por su imaginación desbordante, la fastuosidad de sus frases-que se despliegan...
13) El condominio
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Marshall Preminger, de treinta y siete años, soltero y con una carrera de profesor marcada por varios fracasos, recibe una noticia que podría arreglar su desastrosa situación económica. La súbita muerte de su padre le deja un patrimonio, hasta ese momento desconocido, cuya pieza principal es un apartamento de lujo en un nuevo complejo residencial de Chicago. Al tomar posesión de la herencia Marshall se topa de frente con una comunidad de vecinos...
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A National Book Award-winning author, Stanley Elkin creates novels that are tapestries of humor, satire, and caricature. In books like Mrs. Ted Bliss and The Living End, he offers wry visions of contemporary culture. The Dick Gibson Show is a hilarious panorama of the world of talk radio. At night, a little boy listens to radio stations from Detroit, Memphis, and New Orleans. When he grows up, his first job is with a tiny station in Butte, Montana....