The Dick Gibson Show

Stanley Elkin

Original title: The Dick Gibson show

first published 1971 Plume, 1983 paperback 400 pages

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 an...

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The Dick Gibson show edition · 1998 · Dalkey Archive Press · 335 pages
Dick Gibson Show paperback · 1983 · Plume · 400 pages
The Dick Gibson Show edition · 1980 · Warner Books Inc (Mm) · 9780446955409
The Dick Gibson show edition · 1971 · Random House · 335 pages

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