Boswell

A Modern Comedy

Fiction & Literature, Psychological, Humorous, Literary
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Author: Stanley Elkin ISBN: 9781453204108
Publisher: Open Road Media Publication: October 26, 2010
Imprint: Open Road Media Language: English
Author: Stanley Elkin
ISBN: 9781453204108
Publisher: Open Road Media
Publication: October 26, 2010
Imprint: Open Road Media
Language: English

 

Elkin’s striking debut: The story of one man’s comic attempts at immortality

 

James Boswell is a professional strongman and a wrestler. He is also a loveable leech who amasses friends of wealth and influence as his own insurance policy against death, an obsession that leads him from coast to coast, crashing parties and mentioning any celebrity whose name will grant him an ounce of social currency. But when those around him begin dying, Boswell is forced to confront his own mortality and determine once and for all how to find permanence in an ephemeral world.

 

Poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, Boswell is Elkin’s engaging novel of one man’s desperate attempts to outmaneuver death, and an acerbic take on the follies of the American Dream.

 

This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.

 

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Elkin’s striking debut: The story of one man’s comic attempts at immortality

 

James Boswell is a professional strongman and a wrestler. He is also a loveable leech who amasses friends of wealth and influence as his own insurance policy against death, an obsession that leads him from coast to coast, crashing parties and mentioning any celebrity whose name will grant him an ounce of social currency. But when those around him begin dying, Boswell is forced to confront his own mortality and determine once and for all how to find permanence in an ephemeral world.

 

Poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, Boswell is Elkin’s engaging novel of one man’s desperate attempts to outmaneuver death, and an acerbic take on the follies of the American Dream.

 

This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.

 

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