Pieces of Soap (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stanley Elkin
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Writing, Obsession, Novelists, Revenge, Multiple sclerosis, Heart attack or disease, Handicapped, Energy
A book does not begin with its first word, nor does it end with its last. Rather, it includes all of its physical and typographical features—including the dust jacket, the purpose of which seems less and less a matter of protecting the book from dust. The jacket for Stanley Elkin’s Pieces of Soap is a case in point. There is the usual flap copy (summary of the contents in the front, author biography in the rear); on the back, “Praise for Stanley Elkin” from a range of writers (neorealist Richard Ford at one end and postmodernist extraordinaire Robert Coover at the other)....
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