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Criers & Kibitzers, Kibitzers & Criers

Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453204148
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Criers & Kibitzers, Kibitzers & Criers written by Stanley Elkin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This imagination of Elkin’s sneaks up, tickles, surprises, shocks, and kills. It makes stories that are deadly funny.” —The New York Times Each of the nine short stories collected here feature two types of people—the troubled and the troublemakers. In “The Guest,” a homeless man gleefully takes credit for a robbery he did not commit. “In the Alley” tells the story of a terminally ill man who begrudgingly outlives his initial prognosis. And the satiric “I Look Out for Ed Wolfe” features a charismatic salesman auctioning off his life’s possessions in order to determine his value in the world. Laced with wit, Criers & Kibitzers, Kibitzers & Criers is a keenly observed collection that puts Elkin’s comic artistry on full display. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.

Criers & Kibitzers, Kibitzers & Criers

Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Criers & Kibitzers, Kibitzers & Criers written by Stanley Elkin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shouting Down the Silence

Author : David C Dougherty
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091019
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Shouting Down the Silence written by David C Dougherty and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shouting Down the Silence presents the first complete biography of Stanley Elkin, a preeminent novelist who consistently won high marks from critics but whose complexities of style seemed destined to elude the popular acclaim he hoped to attain. 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. Elkin's novels were taught in colleges and universities, his fiction received high praise from critics and reviewers (two of his novels won National Book Critics Circle Awards), and his short stories were widely anthologized--and yet he was unable to achieve renown beyond the avant-garde, or to escape the stigma of being an "academic writer." He wanted to be Faulkner, but he had trouble being Elkin. Drawing on personal interviews and an intimate knowledge of Elkins's life and works, David C. Dougherty captures Elkin's early life as the son of a charismatic, intimidating, and remarkably successful Jewish immigrant from Russia, as well as his later career at Washington University in St. Louis. A frequent participant at the annual Bread Loaf Writers' conference, he was the friend--and sometime antagonist--of other important writers, particularly Saul Bellow, William Gass, Howard Nemerov, and Robert Coover. Despite failed attempts to bridge the gap from his academic post to wide popular success, Elkin continued to write essays, stories, and novels that garnered unerring praise. His was a classic dilemma of an intellectual aesthete loath to make use of the common devices of popular appeal. The book details the ambition, the success, the friction, and the foibles of a writer who won fame, but not the fame he wanted.

The Living End

Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453204407
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Living End written by Stanley Elkin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and a host of others, all in his quest for salvation unlike any other. Moving and witty, The Living End is a hilarious send-up of afterlife clichés and a masterful exploration of the absurdities of human existence. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.

Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers

Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers written by Stanley Elkin and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mrs. Ted Bliss

Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453204229
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Ted Bliss written by Stanley Elkin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: This funny, poignant novel about the misadventures of a Miami Beach widow is “brilliant” (Los Angeles Times). After her beloved husband dies of cancer, Dorothy Bliss is consigned to a life of tedium, waiting out her remaining years in a Miami beachside community shared precariously by its Jewish and Latino residents. When Dorothy attends a series of parties intended to lighten the community’s racial tensions, she is unwittingly pulled into a world of drug smuggling, con artistry, and underground gambling—and a series of adventures that will renew her passion for life. At once heartfelt and hilarious, Mrs. Ted Bliss is a captivating novel of an ordinary woman in extraordinary circumstances, reconciling the regrets of her past and rediscovering adventure in the twilight of her life. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.

Companion to Literature

Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143812743X
Total Pages : 859 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Companion to Literature written by Abby H. P. Werlock and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the previous edition:Booklist/RBB "Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers"RUSA/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source"" ... useful ... Recommended for public libraries and undergraduates."

Boswell

Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564781741
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Boswell written by Stanley Elkin and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 most heroic match is with the Angel of Death) - is a con man, gate crasher, and moocher of epic talent. He is also a man on the make for all the great men of his time - his logic being that if you can't be a lion, know a pride of them. Can he cheat his way out of morality?

The Magic Kingdom

Author : Mo
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496925165
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Magic Kingdom written by Mo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a house near a beautiful forest, a new prince is born, living close to the mansion of his grandfather, the King. The prince moves to the city as a very young child, and there he learns how to use magic and how to play many different games. When he returned to the mansion that he had visited as a baby, he soon realizes something wonderful: his crayons have magically become rainbows! Using magic, he sets out to make the world a perfect place. In this children’s book, a young prince discovers that the reward of magic can make him as great as he wants to be and allows him to work to make the world a perfect place.

Searches & Seizures

Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453204288
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Searches & Seizures written by Stanley Elkin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 literary virtuoso at the pinnacle of his craft. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.

A Bad Man

Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book A Bad Man written by Stanley Elkin and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pieces of Soap

Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1941040373
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Pieces of Soap written by Stanley Elkin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a wickedly witty touch, Elkin’s essays takes readers on a tour of American life in the 20th century. Stanley Elkin was one of our great American writers. “A divine exploiter of the idiocies and intricacies of our language,” as John Irving put it, and nowhere is that more clear than this collection of essays, which find Elkin wresting hilarity and heartbreak from the most unlikely of sources.

Short Story Index

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

Author : John Updike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Stories of the Century written by John Updike and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.

Van Gogh's Room at Arles

Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453204563
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Van Gogh's Room at Arles written by Stanley Elkin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV DIVThree witty and poignant novellas from a twentieth-century literary master at the peak of his craftDIV /div/divDIVVan 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 most accomplished members of his field. “Her Sense of Timing” is a story of a man who, though confined to a wheelchair, attempts to throw a party without the help of his absent wife. And in “Confessions of a Princess Manque,” Elkin writes of the Prince of Wales’s love affair with a common woman in a parody of a sensationalist tabloid story./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis./div /div

Temerity & Gall

Author : John Metcalf
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1771964502
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Temerity & Gall written by John Metcalf and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Metcalf’s] talent is generous, hectoring, huge, and remarkable.”—Washington Post In Temerity & Gall, Metcalf looks back on a lifetime spent in letters; surveys, with no punches pulled, the current state of CanLit; and offers a passionate defense of the promise and potential of Canadian writing. In a 1983 editorial letter to the Globe and Mail, celebrated Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella railed that “Mr. Metcalf—an immigrant—continually and in the most galling manner has the temerity to preach to Canadians about their own literature.” Forty years later, in spite of Kinsella’s effort to discredit him in the name of a misguided nationalism both embarrassing and familiar, John Metcalf still has the temerity and gall to preach, to teach, and to write passionately (and uproariously) about literature in Canada. Part memoir, meditation, and apologia, part criticism and pure Metcalf, the present volume distills a lifetime of reading and writing, thinking and collecting, and continues his necessary work kicking against the ever-present pricks. As is the case with all of his critical work, Temerity & Gall will challenge, delight, anger, and inspire in equal measure, and is essential reading for anyone interested in literature in Canada and its place within the wider tradition of writing in English. Temerity & Gall is printed in a limited paperback edition of 750 copies signed and numbered by the author.

An Egyptian Novel

Author : Orly Castel-Bloom
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628972602
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book An Egyptian Novel written by Orly Castel-Bloom and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protagonist has Egyptian roots going back many generations: on her father’s side, to the expulsion of the Jews of Spain in 1492, when seven brothers of the Kastil family (from Castilla) landed on the Gaza coast after many trials and tribulations. Her mother’s side goes back even further, to the only family that Jewish history has ignored: the ones who said “No” to Moses and stayed in Egypt. After migrating to Israel in the 1950s and settling on a kibbutz—from which they were soon expelled for Stalinism—this storied clan moved to Tel Aviv. In this unconventional family saga, Orly Castel-Bloom blends fact with fiction, history with legend, reimagining the lives of her forebears in unforgettable prose.