{"product_id":"we-never-called-it-frisco-9781566897648","title":"We Never Called It Frisco","description":"\u003cb\u003eA candid novel about the art, artists, and their tempestuous relationships in the countercultural movement of the 50's and 60's, by one of America's most celebrated art critics.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring intermission at a modern dance performance in San Francisco, esteemed and incorrigible cultural critic Marcia Lang collapses into a banquette and dies on the spot. It's soon discovered that Marcia willed her entire estate to Burt--her on-again, off-again roommate-slash-lover. His windfall includes her correspondence, her stilted redwood house in Marin County, and an incomplete draft of her unpublished memoir, We Never Called It Frisco. As he processes Marcia's death alongside their cadre of Berkeley bohemians, Burt begins to reconstruct Marcia's work in progress as an elegiac collage for the friend he's lost and the city that found her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his first novel, renowned art critic Jed Perl, guides his reader down the back alleys of a mid-century San Francisco populated with painters, puppeteers, paperback revolutionaries, and the writers like Marcia who determined their positions in the cultural ecosystem. Through energetic and immersive prose, \u003ci\u003eWe Never Called It Frisco\u003c\/i\u003e tests the structural limits of the novel as a site of reconstitution and remembrance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566897648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136","brand":"Jed Perl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52801273495733,"sku":"9781566897648","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/we-never-called-it-frisco-9781566897648","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}