The Magic Kingdom

Name: The Magic Kingdom
Author: Stanley Elkin

by Stanley Elkin

Novel about dying children at a theme park confronting faith, family, and mortality

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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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