The Dick Gibson Show (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781564781987)

National Book Award finalist: 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.

Author: Stanley Elkin
ISBN-10: 1564781984
ISBN-13: 9781564781987
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/1998
Pages: 378
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.57w x 0.93d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/1999