Pieces of Soap
Stanley Elkin
Tin House Books
<p>With a wickedly witty touch, Elkin's essays takes readers on a tour ofAmerican life in the 20th century.</p>Stanley Elkin was one of our great American writers. "Adivine exploiter of the idiocies and intricacies of our language," as JohnIrving put it, and nowhere is that more clear than this collection of essays,which find Elkin wresting hilarity and heartbreak from the most unlikely ofsources.