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The Dick Gibson Show

By Stanley Elkin

Book information

Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Year
1998
ISBN
1564781984, 9781564781987
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
604 kB (618544 bytes)
Edition
1st Dalkey Archive ed
Pages
335\0
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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.

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