George Mills
Author(s): Stanley Elkin
Considered by many to be Elkin's magnum opus, George Mills is, an ambitious, digressive and endlessly entertaining account of the 1,000 year history of the George Millses. From toiling as a stable boy during the crusades to working as a furniture mover, there has always been a George Mills whose lot in life is to serve important personages. But the latest in the line of true blue-collar workers may also be the last, as he obsesses about his family's history and decides to break the cycle of doomed George Millses. An inventive, unique family saga, George Mills is Elkin at his most manic, most comic and most poignant.
General Information
- :
- : Dalkey Archive Press
- : Dalkey Archive Press
- : 0.622
- : 24 September 2009
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Stanley Elkin
- : Paperback
- : 813.54
- : 518
More About The Product
"A comedy that cuts so many ways that it leaves us bleeding with laughter." -- New York Times
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. Elkin's work revolves about American pop culture, which it portrays in innumerable darkly comic variations.
