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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.

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.

George Mills

Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453204180
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book George Mills written by Stanley Elkin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 in an Ottoman harem, each George Mills falls prey to his hereditary misfortune—until the modern George Mills threatens to reverse this fate once and for all. Written with penetrating insight and wit, George Mills is an engrossing story of one man’s salvation, and an unforgettable defense of free will in even the most overwhelming of circumstances. 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.

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.

The MacGuffin

Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564782236
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book The MacGuffin written by Stanley Elkin and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As he's chauffeured about in his official limousine, aging City commissioner of Streets Bobbo Druff comes to a frightening realization: he's lost force, the world has started to condescend to him. His once fear-inspiring figure has become everyone's "little old lady." In retaliation, Druff constructs a paranoid plot, his "MacGuffin" within which)he believes) everyone is out to get him. with unabashed enthusiasm Druff starts an illicit affair (in order to incriminate himself), instigates fights with his employees, invents lies for his family- in short, everythingything in his power to create a world in which he is placed safely and firmly at the scandalous center.

The Rabbi of Lud

Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564782700
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book The Rabbi of Lud written by Stanley Elkin and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrounded by cemeteries in the flatlands of New Jersey, the small town of Lud is sustained by the business of death. In fact, with no synagogue and no congregation, Rabbi Jerry Goldkorn has only one true responsibility: to preside over burial services for Jews who pass away in the surrounding cities. But after the Arctic misadventures that led him to Lud, he wouldn't want to live (or die) anywhere else. As the only living child in Lud, his daughter Connie has a different opinion of this grisly city, and she will do anything to get away from it--or at least liven it up a bit. Things get lively indeed when Connie testifies to meeting the Virgin Mary for a late-night romp through the local graveyards.

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.

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:

Funnymen

Author : Ted Heller
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 9780743235006
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Funnymen written by Ted Heller and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2003-04-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sigmund "Ziggy" Blissman isn't the best-looking, sanest boy in the world. Far from it. But this misfit child of a failed husband-and-wife vaudeville team has one thing going for him: He can crack people up just by batting his eyelashes. Vittorio "Vic" Fontana, the son of a fisherman, can barely carry a tune or even stay awake while attempting to, but he, too, has one thing going for him: Women love to look at him. On their own, these two men are failures. But one summer night in the Catskills, Ziggy and Vic step onstage and together become the funniest men -- and hottest act -- in America. Written as a fictional oral history and filled with more than seventy memorable characters, Funnymen is the wildly inventive story of "Fountain and Bliss," the comedy duo that delighted America in the 1940s and 1950s. The episodes recounted here by managers, wives, children, mistresses, friends, fans, and foes -- and the truths Heller reveals about human ambition, egotism, and friendship -- make Funnymen not only a masterpiece of storytelling, but also a thoroughly hilarious read.

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 Dick Gibson Show

Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453204326
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Dick Gibson Show written by Stanley Elkin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radio host’s rise is the fodder for this “funny, melancholy, frightening . . . absolutely American” National Book Award finalist (The New York Times Book Review). Since childhood, Dick Gibson has longed for a successful radio career to make him a household name. Seeking to hone his craft, Dick travels from stations in Nebraska and New Jersey to the Armed Forces Radio in the Pacific Theater during the Second World War, interviewing crooks, con artists, and hypnotists along the way. His show ignites the imaginations of all who listen to it—until one fateful night when a studio guest’s irresistible influence on Dick and all those listening to him will change their lives forever. Spirited and compelling, The Dick Gibson Show is a laugh-out-loud journey through the world of talk radio and a compulsively readable account of one man’s descent into the dark echo chamber of American media. 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.

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.

Enchantment

Author : Daphne Merkin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374711941
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Enchantment written by Daphne Merkin and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold, provocative "pioneering novel" (Los Angeles Times) about family, womanhood, and growing up Set on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Enchantment is narrated by Hannah Lehmann, the wry survivor of a troubled childhood. Hannah's perceptions of her Orthodox German Jewish heritage—her five brothers and sisters, the complicated power of families, the madness of money, the obsessive workings of memory itself—are as disquieting in their sharpness as they are lucid in their irony. The world, she finds, is a treacherous place where love is closely knit with pain, but even the limitations of her own point of view are not lost on Hannah. She is all too aware that her perspective is fixed in the vise of her childhood: “My mother,” she says, “is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world.” This is a novel about what people say when they are talking to themselves; what families look like when they are not observed by others. Provocative, hawkishly observed, and devastating in its reliability, Daphne Merkin's Enchantment is a searing and unforgettable exploration of family and self.

Tsar

Author : Ted Bell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847399533
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Tsar written by Ted Bell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere in Russia is a man so powerful that no one even knows his name. Yet though he is all but invisible, he is pulling strings - and pulling them hard. For suddenly Russia is a far bigger threat than even the most devoted Cold War warriors ever thought possible. With her finger on the switch to the European economy and her sights on the American jugular, Russia gains a new leader. Not just a president, he has been appointed Tsar, a signal to the world that the old imperial power is back - and plans to have her day. At the same time, a mysterious killer brutally murders an innocent American family, literally blowing up the small midwestern town in which they lived. Just a taste, according to the new Tsar, of what will happen if America does not step aside in preventing Russia's plans to 'reintegrate' her rogue states. Onto this nightmarish stage steps special agent extraordinaire Alex Hawke, the only man - both the British and Americans agree - who can stop the madness.

Everything Between Us

Author : Harper Bliss
Publisher : Ladylit Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9881491053
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Everything Between Us written by Harper Bliss and published by Ladylit Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only size that matters is your heart's Pink Bean barista Josephine Greenwood is utterly starstruck when she meets her feminist idol, Caitlin James. When Caitlin starts showing a more than friendly interest in her, Josephine can't believe Caitlin's advances are genuine. Her issues with her body and how people see her, threaten to cut off any prospect of romance before it has the chance to blossom. Will Caitlin be able to break down the walls Josephine has built around herself and open her mind to the possibility of romance? Don't miss the third book in best-selling lesbian romance author Harper Bliss' thought-provoking Pink Bean series! Every book in this series can be read as a stand-alone without having read the other instalments. ★★★★★ "All I can say is wow... this was an amazingly well written story with an issue that a lot of women deal with." THE PINK BEAN SERIES: 1. No Strings Attached 2. Beneath the Surface 3. Everything Between Us 4. This Foreign Affair 5. Water Under Bridges 6. No Other Love 7. Love Without Limits 8. Crazy For You 9. More Than Words

Shouting Down the Silence

Author : David C. Dougherty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780252035081
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Shouting Down the Silence written by David C. Dougherty and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 281 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.

Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers

Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher : American Literature (Dalkey Ar
ISBN 13 : 9781564782342
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers written by Stanley Elkin and published by American Literature (Dalkey Ar. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 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