Boswell
Subtitle: A Modern Comedy (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Edition: 1st Dalkey Archive Ed edition
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: April 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9781564781741
Subjects: Modern fiction; Humorous; Fiction - General; Fiction; General
Description: Boswell is Stanley Elkin's first and funniest novel: the comic odyssey of a twentieth-century groupie who collects celebrities as his insurance policy against death. James Boswell - strong man, professional wrestler (his most heroic match is with the Angel of Death) - is a con man, gate crasher, and moocher of epic talent. He is also a man on the make for all the great men of his time - his logic being that if you can't be a lion, know a pride of them. Can he cheat his way out of morality?