Van Gogh's Room at Arles

Three witty and poignant novellas from a twentieth-century literary master at the peak of his craft Van Gogh{u2019}s Room at Arles is Stanley Elkin{u2019}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{u2019}s title story, Elkin writes of an insecure professor{u2019}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{u2019}s love affair with a common woman in a parody of a sensationalist tabloid story. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author{u2019}s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis