Boswell

Name: Boswell
Author: Stanley Elkin

by Stanley Elkin

Novel of a man interviewing famous people throughout history in absurdist biography

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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.

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