| Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers Contributor(s): Elkin, Stanley (Author), Lehmann, Chirs (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1564782344 ISBN-13: 9781564782342 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2000 Annotation: -- This collection of vintage Elkin brings together nine tragicomic tales of hard-luck cases and ordinary schmucks steeling themselves against the absurdities of everyday life, all written with Elkin's exuberant wordplay in a perfectly pitched prose. -- Stanley Elkin, a two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and three-time nominee for the National Book Award is widely considered one of the most important writers of the contemporary period. His works include The Franchiser, George Mills, and Mrs. Ted Bliss. -- First published by Random House ('66), most recent paperback by Thunder's Mouth Press ('90). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00020977 |
| Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive) |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.52" W x 8.48" (0.75 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |