Doomed by a thousand-year-old curse to serve important personages throughout the centuries, George Mills loves and follows various lieges, from a stableboy ancestor in the First Crusade to a modern-day furniture mover. Reprint. LJ.
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"A comedy that cuts so many ways that it leaves us bleeding with laughter." -- New York Times
"A true artist . . . Stanley Elkin never lets us down. . . . I read his books with pleasure and also with respect." -- Saul Bellow
"Stanley Elkin’s imagination should be declared a national landmark." -- Paul Auster --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"A true artist . . . Stanley Elkin never lets us down. . . . I read his books with pleasure and also with respect." -- Saul Bellow
"Stanley Elkin’s imagination should be declared a national landmark." -- Paul Auster --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Stanley Elkin--a two-time recipient of the Nation Book Critics Circle Award--is widely regarded as one of America's most important contemporary writers. During his lifetime he wrote more than a dozen novels and short story collections, including THE MAGIC KINGDON, THE FRANCHISER, and THE DICK GIBSON SHOW.
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Stanley Elkin (1930-1995) was an award-winning author of novels, short stories, and essays. Born in the Bronx, Elkin received his BA and PhD from the University of Illinois and in 1960 became a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis where he taught until his death. His critically acclaimed works include the National Book Critics Circle Award-winners George Mills (1982) and Mrs. Ted Bliss (1995), as well as the National Book Award finalists The Dick Gibson Show (1972), Searches & Seizures (1974), and The MacGuffin (1991). His book of novellas, Van Gogh's Room at Arles, was a finalist for the PEN Faulkner Award.
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Elkin is about as good as it gets when it comes to fiction (modern, postmodern, classical or otherwise), and GM, while not his best (as he claimed) is awfully good. In reading his novels and stories, one needs to simply go with it: there's a kind of quote/unquote dao that's a prerequisite, and you'll need it with GM more than the others. But once you're in the groove of his prose and story you'll be ... well, enchanted is not quite the word for it. Enhanced is probably a better one. While I'd recommend this book highly, I'd also recommend picking up The Franchiser or The Magic Kingdom first. Elkin was one of our very, very best, so you can't really go wrong with any of his titles.
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