Stanley Elkin's The Magic Kingdom | Social Concerns
Although Elkin determined, after completing George Mills (1982), to give up writing because he felt that he had put everything he had into that novel, a fortuitous event inspired the book that will prove to be his masterpiece. While in London he saw on the BBC a long report about the departure of an airplane carrying terminally ill children to America for a dream vacation in Disney World. The writer's conflicting emotions were overpowering, and this conflict led him to compose a new novel. On the one hand, he felt overwhelming sorrow and compassion for children doomed to die and...
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