This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Three chapters of this book have appeared previously in
Esquire, The Paris Review and The Saturday Evening Post.
copyright © 1964 by Stanley Elkin
cover design by Milan Bozic
ISBN: 978-1-4532-0410-8
This edition published in 2010 by Open Road Integrated Media
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