Stanley Elkin
Stanley Elkin was one of the most exuberantly gifted prose stylists of postwar American fiction, whose comic novels and novellas celebrated American consumer culture with dazzling, excessive verbal invention. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award for George Mills.
Works
- The FranchiserNovel about a businessman franchising dying American dreams across the country
- George MillsNovel tracing a family curse of mediocrity across generations from Crusades to present
- The Magic KingdomNovel about dying children at a theme park confronting faith, family, and mortality
- The Dick Gibson ShowNovel following a radio host's obsessive quest to report the greatest show ever
- BoswellNovel of a man interviewing famous people throughout history in absurdist biography