{"product_id":"the-dick-gibson-show-9781564781987","title":"The Dick Gibson Show","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Book Award finalist:\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Stanley Elkin’s third novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Dick Gibson Show\u003c\/i\u003e...squeezes the blackheads behind the ears of your imagination; it’s a Diane Arbus walk on the unreconciled side. It’s among the most powerful and funny American novels I know....it’s worth noting how fully this novel, which is set mostly in the two decades after World War II, anticipates the daily purge that is the internet, its mille-feuille layers of outrage and heartbreak....The contents of Elkin’s novel leave you a bit sick. His talent leaves you wasted, too. This book is a landslide of language, and it’s unfair, somehow, that so many gifts were bestowed on one writer…\" -- Dwight Garner * New York Times, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Beauties\u003c\/i\u003e column *\u003cbr\u003e\"A divine exploiter of the idiocies and intricacies of our language.\" * John Irving *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is Elkin's third novel and his best--a funny, melancholy, frightening, scabrous, absolutely American compendium that may turn out to be our classics about radio.\" -- Joseph McElroy * New York Times Book Review *","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51585846575447,"sku":"9781564781987","price":12.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781564781987.jpg?v=1756489482","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-dick-gibson-show-9781564781987","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}