Van Gogh's Room at Arles

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Publication Year:
2010

ISBN-13: 9781453204566

<DIV><p>&#160;</p><DIV><B>Three witty and poignant novellas from a twentieth-century literary master at the peak of his craft</B><DIV>&#160;</div></div><DIV><i>Van Gogh&rsquo;s Room at Arles</i> is Stanley Elkin&rsquo;s second collection of novellas, a razor-sharp exploration of three characters suffering under the weight of intellectual, physical, and social burdens. In the collection&rsquo;s title story, Elkin writes of an insecure professor&rsquo;s scholarly retreat with the most accomplished members of his field. &ldquo;Her Sense of Timing&rdquo; is a story of a man who, though confined to a wheelchair, attempts to throw a party without the help of his absent wife. And in &ldquo;Confessions of a Princess Manque,&rdquo; Elkin writes of the Prince of Wales&rsquo;s love affair with a common woman in a parody of a sensationalist tabloid story.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.</div><p>&#160;</p></div>