Van Gogh's Room at Arles

Download or read book Van Gogh's Room at Arles written by Stanley Elkin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV DIVThree witty and poignant novellas from a twentieth-century literary master at the peak of his craftDIV /div/divDIVVan Gogh’s Room at Arles is Stanley Elkin’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’s title story, Elkin writes of an insecure professor’s scholarly retreat with the most accomplished members of his field. “Her Sense of Timing” 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 “Confessions of a Princess Manque,” Elkin writes of the Prince of Wales’s love affair with a common woman in a parody of a sensationalist tabloid story./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis./div /div