Award Winning Books by
STANLEY ELKIN

Mrs. Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin 8 reviews (1995) (294p) (NBCCA) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

In language that is "rich, musical and playful, like that of a Joyce who grew up on Yiddish" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times), Stanley Elkin offers us the extraordinary Dorothy Bliss, an eighty-two-year-old widow caught in a tragicomic world, forced to find purpose in endless card games and "Good Neighbor Policy Night" at a Florida retirement community.... more >>

Van Gogh's Room at Arles by Stanley Elkin 2 reviews (1993) (312p) (PF) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

These three delicious novellas, from "a master of language and black humor" ( New York Times), demonstrate the author's mastery of the roller-cosater sentence, hair-pin narrative twist, and the joke that leaves readers torn between tears and laughter.... more >>

The MacGuffin by Stanley Elkin 2 reviews (1991) (283p) (NBA) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

In The MacGuffin, Elkin narrates with accustomed panache the mysterious events that take place in something under forty hours in the life of Bobby Druff, City Commissioner of Streets, aged fifty-eight, whose ordered world of avenues and roads seems suddenly a rather more complicated maze than he remembers. Events, in fact, conspire against him, and his wife, his son, his new-found lover, even his ... more >>

George Mills by Stanley Elkin 1 reviews (1982) (518p) (NBCCA) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Doomed by a thousand-year-old curse to serve important personages throughout the centuries, George Mills loves and follows various lieges, from a stableboy ancestor in the First Crusade to a modern-day furniture mover. Reprint. LJ. ... more >>

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Stanley Elkin Award Stats

Major Prize* Nominations 4   Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* 4   Pulitzer Prize Wins 0   Pulitzer Prize Nominations 0   National Book Critics Circle Award Wins 2 George Mills · Mrs. Ted Bliss ·   National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations 2 George Mills · Mrs. Ted Bliss ·   National Book Award Wins 0   National Book Award Nominations 1 The MacGuffin ·   Man Booker Prize Wins 0   Man Booker Prize Nominations 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Wins 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations 1 Van Gogh's Room at Arles ·

*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award

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