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9781564783424 | Dalkey Archive Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A quintessential Elkin protagonist, Ellerbee is a good husband, a good employer, a good sport who cares greatly about his fellow human beingsâuntil he is killed during a senseless liquor-store hold-up.
9780380728978 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, December 1, 1996), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This comic triptych traces the holdup of a liquor store in Minneapolis to its inevitable Judgement Day consequences, following the life and afterlife experiences of various characters, including the damned in hell and the saints in heaven
9780525481584 | Reprint edition (E P Dutton, March 1, 1985), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: This comic triptych traces the holdup of a liquor store in Minneapolis to its inevitable Judgement Day consequences, following the life and afterlife experiences of richly varied characters including the damned in hell and the saints in heaven
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780788712289 | Recorded Books, December 1, 1997, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A quintessential Elkin protagonist, Ellerbee is a good husband, a good employer, a good sport who cares greatly about his fellow human beingsâuntil he is killed during a senseless liquor-store hold-up.
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9781564783325 | 1 edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, September 1, 2003), cover price $13.95
9780380728985 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, December 1, 1996), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Breaking the law in a foolhardy attempt to accommodate his customers, unscrupulous department store owner Leo Feldman finds himself in jail and at the mercy of the warden, who tries to break Leo of his determination to stay bad
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9781564782922 | Dalkey Archive Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $14.95
9780380728992 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, December 1, 1996), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The unlikely becomes the commonplace in this tale about a man who knows everything about his family, going back a thousand years
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9781562829377 | Hyperion Books, March 1, 1993, cover price $22.45 | About this edition: In a trio of novellas, a wheelchair-bound professor presides over an out-of-control student party, the spurned fiance of the Prince of England pens her expose memoirs, and the winner of a foundation grant searches for his scholarly identity among his academic peers
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9781564782809 | Dalkey Archive Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The three novellas collected in Van Gogh's Room at Arles demonstrate once again Stanley Elkin's mastery of the English language, with exuberant rants on almost every page, unexpected plot twists, and jokes that leave readers torn between laughter and tears.
9780140236590 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, April 1, 1994), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: These three delicious novellas, from "a master of language and black humor" ( New York Times), demonstrate the author's mastery of the roller-cosater sentence, hair-pin narrative twist, and the joke that leaves readers torn between tears and laughter.
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9780786861040 | Hyperion Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $22.45 | About this edition: The author of the acclaimed novel, Van Gogh's Room at Arles, presents a hilarious yet moving account of a widow living in a Miami condominium complex who is courted by some most unlikely beaux.
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9781564783226 | 1 edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, April 1, 2002), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Published posthumously in 1995, Mrs.
9780380728961 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, December 1, 1996), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Dorothy Bliss, a widow from Chicago, moves into a Miami condominium complex and leaves behind her strictly defined lifestyle as she begins to build new relationships
9781568953144 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, May 1, 1996), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Dorothy Bliss, a widow from Chicago, moves into a Miami condominium complex and leaves behind her strictly defined lifestyle as she begins to build new relationships
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9781564783059 | Dalkey Archive Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $13.50
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9780684189024 | Scribner, October 1, 1987, cover price $17.95
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9781564782700 | Dalkey Archive Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $12.95
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9781564782595 | Dalkey Archive Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $12.95
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9781564782342 | Dalkey Archive Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $12.95
Hardcover:
9780671673246 | Simon & Schuster, March 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Bobbo Druff, the fifty-eight-year-old commissioner of streets, finds his ordinary life turned upside down by a series of bizarre events and the people in his life--his wife, his son, his new lover, and his chauffeur
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9781564782236 | Dalkey Archive Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Bobbo Druff, a coca leaf-chewing street commissioner on the cusp of just-past-it, transforms his mid-life crisis into a paranoid web of mysterious events in a plot reminiscent of Hitchcock.
9780140172348 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, April 1, 1992), cover price $10.00
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9780788734977 | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, August 1, 1999), cover price $69.00 | About this edition: -- 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.
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9781564781741 | Dalkey Archive Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $13.95
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9781564781987 | Dalkey Archive Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $13.95
9780446955409 | Grand Central Pub, August 1, 1980, cover price $2.75
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9781564781284 | Dalkey Archive Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $8.00
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9780671797850 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, February 1, 1993), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: With a wickedly witty touch, this collection of essays takes readers on a tour of American life in the 20th century.
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9780671734428 | Simon & Schuster, February 1, 1992, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Offers observations and reflections on American absurdities, ranging from show business to the First Amendment, high literature to first sex
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9781560250197 | Reprint edition (Thunder''s Mouth Pr, March 1, 1991), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The unlikely becomes the commonplace in this tale about a man who knows everything about his family, going back a thousand years
After his young son dies despite eleven operations and a variety of medical treatments, Eddy Bale establishes a fund to send dying children on trips to Disneyland
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9781560250180 | Reprint edition (Thunder''s Mouth Pr, March 1, 1991), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: After his young son dies despite eleven operations and a variety of medical treatments, Eddy Bale establishes a fund to send dying children on trips to Disneyland
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9781560250050 | 1 edition (Thunder''s Mouth Pr, August 1, 1990), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Elkin, Stanley
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9780684190136 | Reprint edition (Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1989), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Rabbi Jerry Goldkorn resides in Lud, New Jersey, where Jews from the surrounding states come to bury their dead.
Hardcover:
9780917453168 | Bamberger Books, February 1, 1988, cover price $18.00
Paperback:
9780917453151 | Bamberger Books, February 1, 1988, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Book by Elkin, Stanley
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781556440113 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.95
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781556440106 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $8.95
Hardcover:
9780525243045 | E P Dutton, March 1, 1985, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The magic king is bored living in his kingdom all by himself, and decides to create a queen and subjects to keep him entertained
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9780525482116 | Reprint edition (E P Dutton, May 1, 1986), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: After his young son dies despite eleven operations and a variety of medical treatments, Eddy Bale establishes a fund to send dying children on trips to Disneyland
Hardcover:
9780917453045 | Bamberger Books, July 1, 1985, cover price $15.00
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9780917453038 | Bamberger Books, July 1, 1985, cover price $7.50
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