Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers

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ISBN-10: 1564782344
ISBN-13: 9781564782342
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date: 06/01/2000
Dimensions: 8.48" L, 5.52" W, 0.76" H

Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers

byStanley Elkin
Introduction by: Chirs Lehmann

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Price: $12.95

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These nine stories reveal a dazzling variety of styles, tones and subject matter. Among them are some of Stanley Elkin’s finest, including the fabulistic “On a Field, Rampant,” the farcical “Perlmutter at the East Pole,” and the stylized “A Poetics for Bullies.” Despite the diversity of their form and matter, each of these stories shares Elkin’s nimble, comic, antic imagination, a dedication to the value of form and language, and a concern with a single theme: the tragic inadequacy of a simplistic response to life.

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Virtually any story in this collection contains more art than 98% of the thousands of novels published in this country in the past five years. Elkin's stories are fully realized expressions of the comic sense of tragedy.
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Details

ISBN-10: 1564782344
ISBN-13: 9781564782342
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date: 06/01/2000
Dimensions: 8.48" L, 5.52" W, 0.76" H
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