{"product_id":"going-down-paperback","title":"Going Down - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Markson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike David Markson's most recent works, including \u003cem\u003eVanishing Point\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWittgenstein's Mistress, \u003c\/em\u003e which David Foster Wallace described as \"pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country,\" his early novel, \u003cem\u003eGoing Down, \u003c\/em\u003e is a more traditional effort, a masterfully plotted narrative set in Mexico in the 1960s. Three Americans, a man and two women, are living together in obvious intimacy. Their habits, strange to the Mexicans, are strangest of all to themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Fern Winters' attention is caught by movement behind a window in a run-down Greenwich Village apartment building, she can't suspect that her encounter with the apartment's occupant will eventually lead her to be come upon in an abandoned chapel, in a tiny mountain village--clutching the bloody machete with which one of the three has been murdered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoing Down\u003c\/em\u003e is a rarity among novels--brilliantly and poetically written, faultlessly constructed, centered on fully realized people, and yet completely uninhibited in its depiction of startling eroticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Markson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five novels, including \u003ci\u003eSpringer's Progress\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein's Mistress\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReader's Block\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Salon Book Award. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 290\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 04, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47426811134130,"sku":"9781593760649","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/31ac9b5cccb514931d58cb5dbabc8356.webp?v=1778517766","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/going-down-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}