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The MacGuffin - Stanley Elkin - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

The MacGuffin - Stanley Elkin - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

As he's chauffeured about in his official limousine, aging City Commissioner of Streets Bobbo Druff comes to a frightening realization: he's lost force, the world has started to condescend to him. His once fear-inspiring figure has become everyone's "little old lady." In retaliation, Druff constructs a paranoid plot--his "MacGuffin"--within which (he believes) everyone is out to get him. With unabashed enthusiasm Druff starts an illicit affair (in order to incriminate himself), instigates fights with his employees, invents lies for his family--in short, does everything in his power to create a world in which he is placed safely and firmly at the scandalous center. One of Elkin's greatest comic figures, Druff's self-conscious madness is surprisingly smart and hilariously inventive. Few characters in modern literatureshow such immense creativity and courage in the face of such a hopeless dilemma--the very slipperiness of existence itself.

DKK 162.00
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Mrs.Ted Bliss - Stanley Elkin - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Mrs.Ted Bliss - Stanley Elkin - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Published posthumously in 1995, Mrs. Ted Bliss tells the story of an eighty-two-year-old widow starting life anew after the death of her husband. As Dorothy Bliss learns to cope with the mundane rituals of life in a Florida retirement community, she inadvertently becomes involved with a drug kingpin trying to use her as a front for his operations. Combining a comic plot with a deep concern for character, Elkin ends his career with a vivid portrait of a woman overcoming loss, a woman who is both recognizable and as unique as Elkin's other famous characters.

DKK 136.00
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The Magic Kingdom - Stanley Elkin - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

The Magic Kingdom - Stanley Elkin - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Abandoned by his wife and devastated by the death of his twelve-year old son, Eddy Bale becomes obsessed with the plight of terminally ill children and develops a plan to provide a last hurrah dream vacation for seven children who will never grow-up. Eddy and his four dysfunctional chaperones journey to the entertainment capital of America--Disney World. Once they arrive, a series of absurdities characteristic of an Elkin novel--including a freak snowstorm and a run-in with a vengeful Mickey Mouse--transform Eddy's idealistic wish into a fantastic nightmare.

DKK 124.00
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Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine - Stanley Crawford - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine - Stanley Crawford - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine is a masterpiece of modern domestic life, a comic novel of closeness and difficulty, miscommunication and stubborn resolve. "Forty years ago I first linked up with Unguentine and we made love on twin-hulled catamarans, sails a-billow, bless the seas . . ." So begins the courtship of a certain Unguentine to the woman we know only as “Mrs. Unguentine,” the chronicler of their sad, fantastical tale. For forty years, they sail the seas together, alone on a giant land-covered barge of their own devising. They tend their gardens, raise a child, invent an artificial forest—all the while steering clear of civilization. Rarely has a book so perfectly registered the secret solitude of marriage, how shared loneliness can result in a powerful bond.

DKK 159.00
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Marguerite Young, Our Darling - Miriam Fuchs - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Marguerite Young, Our Darling - Miriam Fuchs - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

With Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (1965) Marguerite Young established herself as one of the greatest writers of our time, and yet she has been slow to attract critical attention. Miriam Fuchs remedies that defect with the first book-length study of her work, a gathering of personal reminiscences and appreciative essays that explore the breadth of Young's achievement. Part 1 consists of tributes and recollections by such writers as Anne Tyler, Amy Clampitt, Stanley Kunitz, Anna Balakian, among other friends and students. Part 2 offers a dozen critical essays on her work, from Angel in the Forest to Young's biography of Eugene Debs, with special attention to the wonders of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. Part 3 consists of two interviews with Young.

DKK 188.00
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Review of Contemporary Fiction - John O'brien - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Review of Contemporary Fiction - John O'brien - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

From The Mirror in the Well, by Micheline Aharonian Marcom From Prairie Style, by C.S. Giscombe From Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine, by Stanley Crawford From The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Burton Pike) From Homage to Czerny: Studies in Virtuoso Technique, by Gert Jonke (translated by Jean M. Snook) From The One Marvelous Thing, by Rikki Ducornet From The Bathroom, by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (translated by Nancy Amphoux & Paul De Angelis) From Talking Out of School, by Kass Fleisher From A Nest of Ninnies, by John Ashbery & James Schuyler From Pigeon Post, by Dumitru Tsepeneag (translated by Jane Kuntz) From Dust, by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (translated by Evgeny Pavlov) From Anonymous Celebrity, by Igncio de Loyola Brando (translated by Nelson H. Vieira) From Hoppla! 1 2 3, by Grard Gavarry (translated by Jane Kuntz) From News from the Empire, by Fernando del Paso (translated by Alfonso Gonzalez & Stella Clark) From Encounters with Samuel Beckett, by Charles Juliet (translated by Axel Nesme & Tracy Cooke) From Western, by Christine Montalbetti (translated by Betsy Wing) From Jerusalem, by Gonalo M. Tavares (translated by Anna Kushner)

DKK 99.00
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Joseph Mcelroy 10/1 - Review Of Contemporary Fiction - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Joseph Mcelroy 10/1 - Review Of Contemporary Fiction - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Stanley Elkin, "Joe McElroy Introduction"/Joseph McElroy, "Midcourse Corrections"/Joseph McElroy, "Canoe Repair"/Kathryn Kramer, "Dr. McElroy, Homeopath: What One Goes to Him For"/Joseph Tabbi, "'The Generous Paranoia of Those Who Pursue Themselves': McElroy, Mailer, and Ancient History"/John Johnston, "'The Dimensionless Space Between': Narrative Immanence in Joseph McElroy's Lookout Cartridge"/Gregor Campbell, "Processing Lookout Cartridge"/Robert Buckeye, Lookout Cartridge: Plans, Maps, Programs, Designs, Outlines"/Brian Stonehill, "Intimations of Human Divinity in Joseph McElroy's Lookout Cartridge"/Piotr Siemoin, "Chasing the Cartridge: On Translating McElroy"/Pamela White Hadas, "Green Thoughts on Being in Charge: Discovering Joseph McElroy's Plus"/Joan Richardson, "Metaphor Master"/Alicia M. Miller, "Power and Perception in Plus"/Frederick R. Karl, "Women and Men: More Than a Novel"/Harry Mathews, "We for One: An Introduction to Joseph McElroy's Women and Men"/Brian McHale, "Women and Men and Angels: On Joseph McElroy's Fiction"/Gene Frumkin, "A Reader's Voice: Inside Women and Men"/Tom LeClair, "Opening up Joseph McElroy's The Letter Left to Me"/Sandra Schor, "The Letter Left to Me"/Bette Ann Moskowitz, "The Letter Left to Me by The Letter Left to Me"/Stephen S. Hall, "Transcendental Meteorology and Umbrella Days: A Fan's Notes"/Steven Moore, "Joseph McElroy: A Bibliography"/Alan D. Bostick, "Thomas Bernhard: An Appreciation on the Occasion of His Death"

DKK 96.00
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Jose Donoso 12/2 - Review Of Contemporary Fiction - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Jose Donoso 12/2 - Review Of Contemporary Fiction - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Ricardo Gutierrez Mouat, "Jose Donoso: An Introduction and Checklist"/Ricardo Gutierrez Mouat, "Beginnings and Returns: An Interview with Jose Donoso"/Jose Donoso, "A Small Biography of The Obscene Bird of Night"/Jose Donoso, "Nobody Wears Fedoras Anymore"/Marco Antonio de la Parra, "Portrait of a Donoso Apprentice"/Alastair Reid, "Meta-Donoso"/Antonio Benitez Rojo, "The Obscene Bird of Night as a Spiritual Exercise"/Luisa Valenzuela, "From Manuela to the Marchioness the Writer Moves on Guarded (or not) by the Dogs of Desire"/Djelal Kadir, "Next Door: Writing Elsewhere"/Marjorie Agosin, "The Poems of Jose Donoso"/Fernando Alegria, "Good-bye to Metaphor: Curfew"/Marie-Lise Gazarian Gautier, "A Dialogue in Three Voices: An Interview with Maria Pilar Donoso"/Patrick O'Donnell, "An Introduction to the Fiction of Jerome Charyn"/Frederic Tuten, "An Interview with Jerome Charyn"Parkview"/Albert J. Guerard, "Charyn's Azazian Prose"/Michael Woolf, "Charyn in the 1960s: Among the Jews"/David Seed, "Performance, Play, and the Open Form in Going to Jerusalem and The Tar Baby"/David W. Madden, "The Isaac Quintet: Jerome Charyn's Metaphysics of Law and Disorder"/Robert L. Patten, "Waltzing with Witches"/A Jerome Charyn Checklist/Jerome Charyn, "Ma petite reine nazie"/Jerome Charyn, "Three Critical Notes"/Stanley Elkin, "On Jerome Charyn"/Edouard Roditi, "The Fiction of James Bowles as a Form of Self-Expression"

DKK 96.00
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Boswell - Elkin Stanley - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Boswell - Elkin Stanley - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Boswell is Stanley Elkin's first and funniest novel: the comic odyssey of a twentieth-century groupie who collects celebrities as his insurance policy against death. James Boswell--strong man, professional wrestler (his most heroic match is with the Angel of Death)-- is a con man, a gate crasher, and a moocher of epic talent. He is also the hero of one of the most original novel in years ( Oakland Tribune)--a man on the make for all the great men of his time--his logic being that if you can't be a lion, know a pride of them. Can he cheat his way out of mortality?

DKK 125.00
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Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers - Stanley Elkin - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers - Stanley Elkin - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

These nine stories reveal a dazzling variety of styles, tones and subject matter. Among them are some of Stanley Elkin’s finest, including the fabulistic “On a Field, Rampant,” the farcical “Perlmutter at the East Pole,” and the stylized “A Poetics for Bullies.” Despite the diversity of their form and matter, each of these stories shares Elkin’s nimble, comic, antic imagination, a dedication to the value of form and language, and a concern with a single theme: the tragic inadequacy of a simplistic response to life.

DKK 128.00
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The Dick Gibson Show - Stanley Elkin - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

The Dick Gibson Show - Stanley Elkin - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

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.

DKK 125.00
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Review of Contemporary Fiction - - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Review of Contemporary Fiction - - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Arthur M. Saltzman, Stanley Elkin: An Introduction/Peter J. Bailey, 'A Hat Where There Never Was a Hat': Stanley Elkin's Fifteenth Interview/Stanley Elkin, Words and Music/William Gass, Stanley Elkin: An Anecdote/Jerome Charyn, On Stanley Elkin/Jerome Klinkowitz, Elkin before Elkin/Charles Molesworth, Stanley Elkin and 'Everything': The Problem of Surfaces and Fullness in the Novels/Alan Wilde, Final Things: More Letters to mzimmer%humanitas@hub.ucsb.edu/D. C. Dougherty, Nemeses and MacGuffins: Paranoia as Focal Metaphor in Stanley Elkin, Joseph Heller, and Thomas Pynchon/Peter G. Christensen, The Escape from the Curse of History in Stanley Elkin's George Mills/Patrick O'Donnell, Of Red Herrings and Loose Ends: Reading 'Politics' in Elkin's The MacGuffin/Arthur M. Saltzman, A Stanley Elkin Checklist/Mark Axelrod, Alasdair Gray: An Introduction, of Sorts/Mark Axelrod, An Epistolary Interview, Mostly with Alasdair Gray/Alasdair Gray, The Anthology of Prefaces/Alasdair Gray, Time Travel/Philip Hobsbaum, Alasdair Gray: The Voice of His ProseGeorge Donaldson and Alison Lee, Is Eating People Really Wrong? Dining with Alasdair Gray/William M.Harrison, The Power of Work in the Novels of Alasdair Gray/Stephen Bernstein, Scottish Enough: The London Novels of Alasdair Gray/John C. Hawley, Bell, Book, and Candle: Poor Things and the Exorcism of Victorian Sentiment/Lynne Diamond-Nigh, Gray's Anatomy: When Words and Images Collide/Peter Christensen, Language and Its Discontents in Alasdair Gray's 'Logopandocy'/Janice Galloway, Different Oracles: Me and Alasdair Gray/Mark Axelrod, An Alasdair Gray Checklist

DKK 96.00
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Some Instructions to My Wife - Stanley Crawford - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Some Instructions to My Wife - Stanley Crawford - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

From "Putting Things Away" to "The Marriage Almanac" (not to mention the pedantic "Index," in itself a comic wonder), Stanley Crawford gives the married, the unmarried, and the formerly married a classic satire on all the sanctimonious marriage manuals ever produced. Starting with the complete title, "Some Instructions to My Wife Concerning the Upkeep of the House and Marriage, and to My Son and Daughter Concerning the Conduct of Their Childhood," a boorish narrator sets down some seventy-three pieces of advice to his wife, young son, and two-year-old daughter, intended to foster and maintain domestic tranquility in an age of anxiety. Taken literally, our neo-Victorian head of the house is a male chauvinist pig of sorts, but what reader would deny that the sources of Crawford's satire run deep in the American grain?

DKK 120.00
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Van Gogh's Room at Arles - Stanley Elkin - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Van Gogh's Room at Arles - Stanley Elkin - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

The three novellas collected in Van Gogh's Room at Arles demonstrate once again Stanley Elkin's mastery of the English language, with exuberant rants on almost every page, unexpected plot twists, and jokes that leave readers torn between laughter and tears. Her Sense of Timing relates a destructive day in the life of a wheelchair-bound professor who is abandoned by his wife at the worst possible time, leaving him to preside -- helplessly -- over a party for his students that careens out of control. The second story in this collection tells of an unsuspecting commoner catapulted into royalty when she catches the wandering eye of Prince Larry of Wales. And in the title story, a community college professor searches for his scholarly identity in a land of academic giants while staying in Van Gogh's famous room at Arles and avoiding run-ins with the Club of the Portraits of the Descendants of the People Painted by Vincent Van Gogh.

DKK 136.00
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Franchiser - Stanley Elkin - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Franchiser - Stanley Elkin - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Ben Flesh is one of the men “who made America look like America, who made America famous.” He collects franchises, traveling from state to state, acquiring the brand-name establishments that shape the American landscape. But both the nation and Ben are running out of energy. As blackouts roll through the West, Ben struggles with the onset of multiple sclerosis, and the growing realization that his lifetime quest to buy a name for himself has ultimately failed.

DKK 125.00
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Rabbi of Lud - Stanley Elkin - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Rabbi of Lud - Stanley Elkin - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Surrounded by cemeteries in the flatlands of New Jersey, the small town of Lud is sustained by the business of death. In fact, with no synagogue and no congregation, Rabbi Jerry Goldkorn has only one true responsibility: to preside over burial services for Jews who pass away in the surrounding cities. But after the Arctic misadventures that led him to Lud, he wouldn't want to live (or die) anywhere else.As the only living child in Lud, his daughter Connie has a different opinion of this grisly city, and she will do anything to get away from it--or at least liven it up a bit. Things get lively indeed when Connie testifies to meeting the Virgin Mary for a late-night romp through the local graveyards.

DKK 128.00
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Essays on Poetry - Ralph J. Mills Jr. - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Essays on Poetry - Ralph J. Mills Jr. - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Taken from throughout Mills's career, the essays collected in this volume delve into the work of such influential writers as Wallace Stevens, Denise Levertov, Samuel Beckett, Galway Kinnell, Edith Sitwell, Theodore Roethke, Karl Shapiro, Richard Wilbur, Isabella Gardener, James Wright, David Ignatow, Donald Hall, Robert Bly, Philip Levine, and Stanley Kunitz. Mills examines how the personal element informs the works of these writers and enables them "to speak to us, without impediment, from the deep center of a personal engagement with existence."

DKK 159.00
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Essays on Poetry - Ralph J Mills - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Essays on Poetry - Ralph J Mills - Bog - Dalkey Archive Press - Plusbog.dk

Taken from throughout Mills's career, the essays collected in this volume delve into the work of such influential writers as Wallace Stevens, Denise Levertov, Samuel Beckett, Galway Kinnell, Edith Sitwell, Theodore Roethke, Karl Shapiro, Richard Wilbur, Isabella Gardener, James Wright, David Ignatow, Donald Hall, Robert Bly, Philip Levine, and Stanley Kunitz. Mills examines how the personal element informs the works of these writers and enables them "to speak to us, without impediment, from the deep center of a personal engagement with existence."

DKK 285.00
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