{"product_id":"the-dick-gibson-show-paperback","title":"The Dick Gibson Show - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Book Award finalist: \u003c\/b\u003e Look who's on the \"Dick Gibson Radio Show\" Arnold the Memory Expert (\"I've memorized the entire West Coast shoreline - except for cloud cover and fog banks\"). Bernie Perk, the burning pharmacist. Henry Harper, the nine-year old orphan millionaire, terrified of being adopted. The woman whose life revolves around pierced lobes. An evil hypnotist. Swindlers. Con-men. And Dick Gibson himself. Anticipating talk radio and its crazed hosts, Stanley Elkin creates a brilliant comic world held together by American manias and maniacs in all their forms, and a character who perfectly understands what Americans want and gives it to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLook who's on the \"Dick Gibson Radio Show\": Arnold the Memory Expert (\"I've memorized the entire West Coast shoreline - except for cloud cover and fog banks\"). Bernie Perk, the burning pharmacist. Henry Harper, the nine-year old orphan millionaire, terrified of being adopted. The woman whose life revolves around pierced lobes. An evil hypnotist. Swindlers. Con-men. And Dick Gibson himself. Anticipating talk radio and its crazed hosts, Stanley Elkin creates a brilliant comic world held together by American manias and maniacs in all their forms, and a character who perfectly understands what Americans want and gives it to them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51370507141343,"sku":"9781564781987","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/2ihGOEK1Wj9781564781987.webp?v=1789161478","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-dick-gibson-show-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}