{"product_id":"the-giveaway-the-clay-blackburn-story-9798887441030","title":"The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eClay Blackburn--poet, book scout, and sometimes detective--cruises the mean, and sometimes not so mean, streets of Berkeley. With his accomplices, a soldier of fortune, a \"defrocked\" FBI agent, and a smooth and sexy con man, he lives a life of bisexual sensation with a little crime solving on the side. As such, Blackburn is a sly, witty, and more or less reliable raconteur of the last thirty something years of the Bay Area's radical bohemia and bookselling. And in the tradition of Ian Rankin's Edinburgh, and Jean-Claude Izzo's Marseilles, bears uncomfortable witness to Berkeley's descent from countercultural paradise to neoliberal inferno.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis omnibus collection collects the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Chandler Apartments\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eThe Incredible Double \u003c\/i\u003e(2010), and the previously unpublished \u003ci\u003eMayakovsky's Bugatti\u003c\/i\u003e (2025), and includes the Blackburn short story \"Righteous Kill\" (2021).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Yet the more we get to know him, the more we're persuaded Blackburn is a Pure Product of Berkeley. He's not only queer, but a queer sort of all else he declares himself to be: a queer sort of detective, a queer sort of Communist or Anarchist, and beyond--a queer sort of gourmet, ethical thinker, cat owner, and--for certain--a queer sort of narrator.\"--Jonathan Lethem, from the Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PM Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/27\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798887441030\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.74h x 5.91w x 1.10d","brand":"Owen Hill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45234744098997,"sku":"9798887441030","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6e41c5cb-1f45-4f7c-b9e0-a49dae24350d.jpg?v=1743518612","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-giveaway-the-clay-blackburn-story-9798887441030","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}