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Title: The Magic Kingdom by Stanley Elkin, Rick Moody ISBN: 1-56478-259-X Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Love, death, and a malevolent Mickey
Comment: There's nothing quite like the experience of readiing a Stanley Elkin novel. The bizarre events, the over-the-top characters, and the sentences -- long, winding sentences filled with tangential details and parenthetical clauses, sentences which tumble and turn, drunk on themselves, but which somehow by the end all manage to add up.
The Magic Kingdom has all of the virtues of Elkin's other great books, as well as an irresistible premise: a man who mourns his dead son by taking a group of terminally ill children to Disney World. It's as unsentimental as such a story could possibly be, and though the characters all certainly have annoying qualities, by the end the children possess a nobility which is far truer than the superficial good intentions of the adults around them.
Certainly, this will not be a book for everyone. If you only want a straightforward story with sympathetic and coherent characters, look elsewhere, for The Magic Kingdom is a sort of cross between Virginia Woolf and Monty Python. If, however, you are able to keep your imagination open, appreciate wild flights of language, and don't mind moments where you aren't sure whether to laugh, cry, or throw up, then this book is for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing, heartbreaking stuff
Comment: If you want sentimental garbage about dying kids and them being perfect little angels, don't buy this book, watch Oprah. On the other hand, if you want a book that is totally unsentimental, yet extraordinarily heartbreaking, about dying kids who are fatally human, not angels, then get this one and quick!
Rating: 1
Summary: Yuck
Comment: A book where you wish terminally ill kids to hurry up and die? A dying kid masturbating on the monirail at Walt Disney world? What else can I say. A really disturbing bit of fluff
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Title: The Living End by Stanley Elkin ISBN: 0380728974 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Franchiser: A Novel by Stanley Elkin, William H. Gass ISBN: 1564783057 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: Airships by Barry Hannah ISBN: 0802133886 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The MacGuffin by Stanley Elkin, Chirs Lehmann ISBN: 1564782239 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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