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Title: The MacGuffin (Contemporary American Fiction) by Stanley Elkin ISBN: 0-14-017234-3 Publisher: Penguin USA (P) Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: enjoyable, comic read
Comment: Disappointing ending, but enjoyable, comic read. 24 hours in the life of an aging, insecure, politician. Interesting dialogues between a male and his member.

Rating: 5
Summary: Highly recommended reading.
Comment: Aging City Commissioner of Streets Bobbo Druff, in an effort to hang on to his persona of authority and power, constructs a "MacGuffin", a paranoid plot where everyone is out to get him. Druff starts an illicit affair, instigates fights with his employees, invents lies for his family, and does anything he can think of to create a world in which he is placed at the center of influential, self-advertising scandal. A memorable comedy figure, Druff's self-conscious madness is hilariously inventive. Author Stanley Elkin writes his novel with the lyrical intensity of poetry and creates within his character universal qualities (including self-delusions and hopeless machinations) that resonate in us all. Highly recommended.

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