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Shouting down the silence : a biography of Stanley Elkin /
This book presents the first complete biography of Stanley Elkin, a preeminent novelist who consistently won high marks from critics but whose complexities of style seemed destined to elude the popular acclaim he hoped to attain. From the publication of his second novel, A Bad Man, in 1967 to his de...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2010]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. A Sum of Private Frequencies
- 2. When Stanley Elkin Was a Little Boy: New York and Chicago, 1930-48
- 3. College, Graduate School, and the Army, 1948-57
- 4. Family Crises, Graduate School, and a Literary Career, 1957-60
- 5. Become a Strong Man: St. Louis, Europe, First Base, Full Houses, and the Big Time, 1960-65
- 6. Convicted of His Character: Kibitzers, A Bad Man, Additions, and Catastrophe, 1965-68
- 7. Strange Displacements of the Ordinary: Recovery and The Dick Gibson Show, 1968-708. BlessÃ?d Form: Novellas, a Sabbatical Year Abroad, and a Death Sentence, 1971-73
- 9. Making America Look Like America: Hollywood Beckons, a Breakthrough Novel, and a Cane, 1974-77
- 10. Heaven and Hell, St. Louis and Mexico, the First Crusade, and South America: Life's Greatest Hits and a Major Disappointment, 1978-82
- 11. Disney World and Alaskan Rabbis: A Masterpiece, a Flop, the Elkin Essay, and More Bad Medical News, 1983-88
- 12. But I Am Getting Ahead of Myself: Back to the Movies, Another Trilogy, More Awards, and the Last Years, 1989-9413. The Stanley Elkin Chair: The Silence Descends, Posthumous Fiction, and Awards
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index