Mrs. Ted Bliss (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Stanley Elkin
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Death or dying, Widows or widowers, Jews and Gentiles, Hurricanes, Aging
- Locales: Miami Beach, FL
Mrs. Ted Bliss is the last novel Elkin published before he died. Elkin was always attuned to the wantings and wasting of the body and its connections to the body politic within and against which his characters measured their successes and, more usually, their failings. In his earlier novel, The Franchiser, Elkin focuses on a man stricken in his prime with MS (after inheriting a fortune from his godfather) and sets Ben Flesh's cross-country travels against the backdrop of Ben's own unraveling myelin and the nation's energy crisis. Mrs. Ted Bliss is, as the title...
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