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The Living End

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The Living End (1979), a collection of three interwoven novellas about heaven, hell, and Minnesota’s twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, is perhaps Elkin’s best-known work. The novellas examine the mundane concerns of a Twin Cities liquor salesman, as well as God and the…
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