"He was like a jazz artist who would go off on riffs," said critic William Gass. His language throughout is extravagant and exuberant, baroque and flowery, taking fantastic flight from his characters' endless patter. Characters take full precedence over plot. Elkin's work revolves about American pop culture, which it portrays in innumerable darkly comic variations.
His extravagant, satirical fiction revolves around American consumerism, popular culture, and male-female relationships.ĭuring his career, Elkin published ten novels, two volumes of novellas, two books of short stories, a collection of essays, and one (unproduced) screenplay. In a review of G Stanley Lawrence Elkin was a Jewish American novelist, short story writer, and essayist.
During his career, Elkin published ten novels, two volumes of novellas, two books of short stories, a collection of essays, and one (unproduced) screenplay. His extravagant, satirical fiction revolves around American consumerism, popular culture, and male-female relationships. Stanley Lawrence Elkin was a Jewish American novelist, short story writer, and essayist.
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