num_pages: 335
description: National Book Award Look who's on the "Dick Gibson Radio Show": Arnold the Memory Expert ("I've memorized the entire West Coast shoreline - except for cloud cover and fog banks"). Bernie Perk, the burning pharmacist. Henry Harper, the nine-year old orphan millionaire, terrified of being adopted. The woman whose life revolves around pierced lobes. An evil hypnotist. Swindlers. Con-men. And Dick Gibson himself. Anticipating talk radio and its crazed hosts, Stanley Elkin creates a brilliant comic world held together by American manias and maniacs in all their forms, and a character who perfectly understands what Americans want and gives it to them.
language: English
title: The Dick Gibson Show
titlecomplete: The Dick Gibson Show
genres: Jewish, Novels, Literature, Humor, Fiction, United States, American
ratings_count: 295
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press