Stanley Elkin's Magic 2 Author:Stanley Elkin John Irving said that Stanley Elkin's genius "lies in his ability to make the unlikely seem not only true but commonplace." And in The Magic Kingdom Elkin practices his unique alchemy on some of the most unusual characters in contemporary fiction. You will never meet more memorable---or endeari... more »ng---children than the seven terminally ill kids who have been chosen to go to Disney World for a last hurrah.
Disney World becomes for Elkin's heroic children a kind of Lourdes. Bearing their painful afflictions amidst Disney's magical fantasy, they are funny, tough, and true.« less