Word: kamchatkan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elkin characters have sexual problems too. One, for example, must cope with a large female Kamchatkan brown bear, in heat. In The Dick Gib son Show (1971) a druggist tells how knowing the secret medical problems of his women customers gradually unhinged him: "My mind was like the waiting room of a brothel." More often, though, passion is the least Elkin's people have to worry about. Ben Flesh, the hero of The Franchiser (1976), learns in Rapid City, S. Dak., that he has multiple sclerosis. He worries about this and the effect of a current heat wave...
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