Dick Gibson Show

Name: Dick Gibson Show
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Stanley Elkin
ISBN: 9781564781987

Stanley Elkin

14/01/1999
Dalkey Archive Press

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Dick Gibson Show par Stanley Elkin

Résumé

National Book Award finalist: Look who's on the "Dick Gibson Radio Show" Arnold the Memory Expert ("I've memorized the entire West Coast shoreline - except for cloud cover and fog banks"). Bernie Perk, the burning pharmacist. Henry Harper, the nine-year old orphan millionaire, terrified of being adopted. The woman whose life revolves around pierced lobes. An evil hypnotist. Swindlers. Con-men. And Dick Gibson himself. Anticipating talk radio and its crazed hosts, Stanley Elkin creates a brilliant comic world held together by American manias and maniacs in all their forms, and a character who perfectly understands what Americans want and gives it to them.