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Stanley Elkin
ISBN: 9781564782595
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
Edition: Dalkey Archive
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Abandoned by his wife and devastated by the death of his twelve-year old son, Eddy Bale becomes obsessed with the plight of terminally ill children and develops a plan to provide a "last hurrah" dream vacation for seven children who will never grow-up…
-- Brimming with Elkin's comic brilliance and singular wordplay, The Magic Kingdom tells the story of Eddy Bale, who, determined to learn from the ghastly experience of his son's long, drawn-out death, decides to raise enough money to take seven terminally ill children to Disney World in order to give them a dream vacation before they die.-- Stanley Elkin, a two-timer winner of the National Book Critics Award and three-time nominee for the National Book Award, is widely considered to be one of the most important writers of the contemporary period. Author of over a dozen novels and short story collections, his works include The Franchiser, George Mills, and Mrs. Ted Bliss.-- First published by Dutton (1985), most recent paperback by Thunder's Mouth (1991).
| ISBN | 156478259X | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9781564782595
(What's this?) | | Pages | 317 | | Publisher | Dalkey Archive Press | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | Dalkey Archive Press | | Weight (grammes) | 666 | | Format | Paperback | | Published in | Normal | | Publication date | 25 Sep 2009 | | Height (mm) | 250 | | Writer of introduction | Rick Moody | | Width (mm) | 150 | | Library of Congress | 00058950 | | Spine width (mm) | 15 | | DEWEY | 813.54 | | Academic level | Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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