{"product_id":"going-down-9781593760649","title":"Going Down","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catapult\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/04\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781593760649\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"David Markson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42729499459765,"sku":"9781593760649","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_717e7a9a-5b70-4303-a82e-54111464d984.jpg?v=1675802756","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/going-down-9781593760649","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}