The MacGuffin
STANLEY ELKIN
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| Book Description |
| In The MacGuffin, Elkin narrates with accustomed panache the mysterious events that take place in something under forty hours in the life of Bobby Druff, City Commissioner of Streets, aged fifty-eight, whose ordered world of avenues and roads seems suddenly a rather more complicated maze than he remembers. Events, in fact, conspire against him, and his wife, his son, his new-found lover, even his chauffeur, appear to be in on it. The novel combines a sort of tough-talking, laugh-out-loud humor and that odd, amusing, under-the-breath revenge of the powerless with the twists and killer thrill rides of a plot to rival Hitchcock's. |
| Other Award Winning Books by Stanley Elkin |
| Stanley Elkin Award Stats |
| Major Prize* Nominations |
4 |
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| Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* |
4 |
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| Pulitzer Prize Wins |
0 |
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| Pulitzer Prize Nominations |
0 |
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| National Book Critics Circle Award Wins |
2 |
George Mills · Mrs. Ted Bliss · |
| National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations |
2 |
George Mills · Mrs. Ted Bliss · |
| National Book Award Wins |
0 |
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| National Book Award Nominations |
1 |
The MacGuffin · |
| Man Booker Prize Wins |
0 |
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| Man Booker Prize Nominations |
0 |
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| PEN/Faulkner Award Wins |
0 |
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| PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations |
1 |
Van Gogh's Room at Arles · |
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*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award
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2 reviews (1991) (283p)
8 reviews (1995) (294p)
1 reviews (1982) (518p)
