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.