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A satirical novel by Stanley Elkin.
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Stanley Elkin is widely considered one of the most important American writers of the contemporary period, with over a dozen novels and short story collections to his credit. A two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a three-time nominee for the National Book Award, he is regarded as both a great comedic writer and an extraordinary prose stylist. Despite wide acclaim for his work, most of Elkin's novels have fallen out of print since his death in 1995. Dalkey Archive Press began a project in 1998 to restore to print all of Elkin's work and has since published THE DICK GIBSON SHOW, BOSWELL: A MODERN COMEDY, THE MACGUFFIN, CRIERS & KIBITZERS, KIBITZERS & CRIERS, THE MAGIC KINGDOM, and THE RABBI OF LUD, among others.
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Past the organge roof and the turquoise tower, past the immense sunburst of the green and yellow sign, past the golden arches, beyond the low buff building, beside the discrete hut, the dark top hat on the studio window shade, beneath the red and white longitudes of the enormous bucket, coming up to the thick shaft of the yellow arrow, piercing the royal-blue field, he feels he is home. Is it Nashville? Elmira, New York? St. Louis County? A Florida key? The Illinois arrowhead? Indiana as a holster? Ohio like a badge? Is he North? St. Paul, Minn.? Northeast? Boston, Mass.? The other side of America? Salt Lake? Los Angeles? At the botton of the country? The Texas udder? Where? In Colorado's frame? Wyoming like a postage stamp? Michigan like a mitten? The chipped, eroding bays of the Northwest? Seattle? Bellingham, Washington?
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THE FRANCHISER
Published by
Farrar, Straus, Girous, New York, 1976
ISBN 10: 0374158339
ISBN 13: 9780374158330
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Hardcover
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. First printing. Octavo, 341 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine is white with brown, blue, and orange print. Dust jacket in mylar; light edge wear, with taped repair to rear bottom edge. Price unclipped: "$8.95". Boards quarter bound with blue cloth to spine and red cloth to boards; slight wear to spine caps. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W. 1407454. FP New Rockville Stock. Seller Inventory # 1407454
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The Franchiser (First Edition)
Published by
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1976
ISBN 10: 0374158339
ISBN 13: 9780374158330
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing (stated). A fine copy (but for very light soiling to top edge) in a fine jacket (but for very light sun-fading to spine and very light soiling to edges). A clean copy with price ($8.95) intact on front flap. Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-876