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ISBN-10: 1564781984
ISBN-13: 9781564781987
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date: 12/01/1998
Dimensions: 8.52" L, 5.57" W, 0.93" H

The Dick Gibson Show

Introduction by: Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

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Price: $13.95

Overview

National Book Award finalist: Look who’s on the “Dick Gibson Radio Show” Arnold the Memory Expert (“I’ve memorized the entire West Coast shoreline – except for cloud cover and fog banks”). Bernie Perk, the burning pharmacist. Henry Harper, the nine-year old orphan millionaire, terrified of being adopted. The woman whose life revolves around pierced lobes. An evil hypnotist. Swindlers. Con-men. And Dick Gibson himself. Anticipating talk radio and its crazed hosts, Stanley Elkin creates a brilliant comic world held together by American manias and maniacs in all their forms, and a character who perfectly understands what Americans want and gives it to them.

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"Stanley Elkin's third novel, The Dick Gibson Show...squeezes the blackheads behind the ears of your imagination; it's a Diane Arbus walk on the unreconciled side. It's among the most powerful and funny American novels I know....it's worth noting how fully this novel, which is set mostly in the two decades after World War II, anticipates the daily purge that is the internet, its mille-feuille layers of outrage and heartbreak....The contents of Elkin's novel leave you a bit sick. His talent leaves you wasted, too. This book is a landslide of language, and it's unfair, somehow, that so many gifts were bestowed on one writer..."–Dwight Garner "New York Times, American Beauties column"
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ISBN-10: 1564781984
ISBN-13: 9781564781987
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date: 12/01/1998
Dimensions: 8.52" L, 5.57" W, 0.93" H
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