With a wickedly witty touch, Elkin's essays takes readers on a tour of American life in the 20th century. Stanley Elkin was one of our great American writers. A divine exploiter of the idiocies and intricacies of our language, as John Irving put it, and nowhere is that more clear than this collection of essays, which find Elkin wresting hilarity and heartbreak from the most unlikely of sources.
- ISBN10 0671734423
- ISBN13 9780671734428
- Publish Date 1 February 1992
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 12 November 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Simon & Schuster
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 334
- Language English