An edition of The living end (1979)

The living end

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An edition of The living end (1979)

The living end

a triptych

1st ed.
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Stanley Elkin's short comic novel "The Living End" is a nifty, nasty blast against the Judeo-Christian tradition. By hilariously excoriating the conventional vision of the afterlife, Elkin (1930-1995) uses his fandangoing language to accuse God of cultivating an imagination that's sadistic rather than sublime. Elkin's satiric misanthropy is worthy of Twain, though it falls short of Swift. The action in "The Living End" jumps from Heaven to Hell and back, its sardonic metaphysics revolving around the sufferings of a Job-like figure, Ellerbee, a decent man who while alive makes a few small mistakes, such as keeping his liquor store open on the Sabbath. - Bill Marx on ArtsFuse.org

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Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Pages
148

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Cover of: The living end
The living end
2004, Dalkey Archive Press
in English - 1st Dalkey Archive ed.
Cover of: The Living End
The Living End
December 1997, Recorded Books
Audio cassette
Cover of: The Living End
The Living End
December 1996, Quill
in English
Cover of: The Living End
The Living End
April 24, 1985, Plume
Paperback in English
Cover of: The living end
The living end: a triptych
1979, Dutton
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The living end
The living end
1979, Dutton
in English - 1st ed
Cover of: The living end
The living end
Publish date unknown, Dutton
- 1st ed.

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New York

Table of Contents

Part one : The conventional wisdom
Part two : The bottom line
Part three : The state of the art

Edition Notes

Subtitle from jacket.
"A Henry Robbins book."
"The three sections of this book first appeared, in slightly different form, respectively in American Review, Antaeus, and Tri-quarterly."

Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
1979

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.5/4
Library of Congress
PZ4.E44 Li 1979, PS3555.L47 Li 1979, PS3555.L47; Li 1979, PZ4.E44Li 1979

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
148 p.
Number of pages
148
Dimensions
22 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4736994M
Internet Archive
livingend00elki
ISBN 10
0525070206
ISBN 13
9780525070207
LCCN
78027135
OCLC/WorldCat
4491682
Library Thing
104703
Goodreads
2143651

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