{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50473976758546,"sku":"9781593760649","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e02735f0-e506-44b7-b644-2d581b63f225.jpg?v=1730209691","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/going-down-9781593760649","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}