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A Bad Man by Stanley Elkin is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Bad Man about?

"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 this grey-stone purgatory run by a sadistic prison warden who enforces a set of elaborate, ever-shifting rules."--Jacket.

Author

Stanley Elkin

Publisher

New York, Random House

Published

1967

Language

EN

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction

Rating

3.86 / 5 (113 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14