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.
| ISBN: | 9781564781987 |
| Publication date: | 17th December 1998 |
| Author: | Stanley Elkin, Christopher LehmannHaupt |
| Publisher: | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 335 pages |
| Series: | American Literature |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |