Lion Country
Frederick Buechner
Lion Country by Frederick Buechner is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.
Read Time: ~5.6 hr
The Dick Gibson Show
by Stanley Elkin (1971)
About this book
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 and its crazed hosts, Stanley Elkin creates a brilliant comic world held together by American manias and maniacs in all their forms, and a character who perfectly understands what Americans want and gives it to them.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraLate 20th Century
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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