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.
- ISBN10 0446915432
- ISBN13 9780446915434
- Publish Date 1 September 1980
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 September 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Warner Books (NY)
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 288
- Language English