Stanley Elkin
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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
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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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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...
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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...
5) George Mills
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Elkin's National Book Critics Circle Award-winning classic: A compelling novel of one man's journey to break free from a thousand-year-old family curse. 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...
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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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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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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...
9) 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...
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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...
12) A Bad Man
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A black market dealer must reconcile his lifetime of sins as he faces hard time in prison. A born salesman, Leo Feldman can peddle anything from clothing and appliances to prostitutes, guns, and drugs. Although guilty of myriad crimes, Feldman is sentenced to prison as the result of a clerical error that charged him with a crime he did not commit. Now, completely vulnerable to the inmates who surround him - and to the stern Warden Fisher - Feldman...
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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...
14) The Living End
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Stanley Elkin's The Living End is a marvelously funny novel about life and death, heaven and hell. In it, the National Book Award-winning author sets into motion a divine comedy that will have you chuckling at his wry visions of celestial affairs. Ellerbee, the unassuming owner of a small liquor store, is fatally shot in a holdup. First, the Angel of Death ushers him into a wondrous heaven, but St. Peter has other, more infernal plans for this hero....
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