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A bad manStanley Elkin

A bad man

1967336 pages
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"Sentenced to a year in jail for providing his customers with everything they needed - drugs for the nervous, abortions for the unintending, guns for the crazed - department store owner Leo Feldman finds himself in a Kafkaesque prison. Labeled a "bad man," Feldman is treated as a fool, made to wear a clownish version of his business suit with oversized button holes too big for the buttons and miscut legs and pockets. While incarcerated, he's forced to come to terms with his criminal self - a man always on the make, one who can't avoid overselling to the poor and lying to the trusting - in…

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4 editions
  • Other · English · 2003
    Dalkey Archive Press · 308 pages · 9781564783325
  • Other · English · 1996
    Bad Man
    Harper Perennial · 308 pages · 9780380728985
  • Other · English · 1984
    E.P. Dutton · 368 pages · 9780525481324
  • Other · English · 1981
    Warner Books · 368 pages · 9780446955393
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