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Franchiser (Nonpareil Books) Book

Ben Flesh inherits an unusual deathbed request: the prime interest rate. This wildly comic, energetic, and virtuoso novel surveys the sordid American scene with an eye that reflects the chaos of our society with a brilliance and clarity seldom encountered. As William Gass writes in his foreword, "Elkin composes a song from the clutter of the country, a chant out of that 'cargo of crap' that comprises our culture. . . ."This is vintage Elkin, America made Flesh through a hero who can't see the forest for the picnic tables and through a tale whose central metaphor is the franchise, that self-replicating mechanism that has sanitized and saturated our landscape.Read More

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  • 0879233230
  • 9780879233235
  • Stanley Elkin
  • 1 November 1980
  • David R. Godine Publisher
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 341
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