{"product_id":"clark-giffords-body-isbn-9781590171820","title":"Clark Gifford's Body","description":"\u003cb\u003eBack in Print After Fifty Years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClark Gifford? A cipher. A disaffected, vaguely idealistic politician in a nameless media-driven modern state where representative politics has dwindled to the corrupt transaction of business as usual and a new foreign war is always breaking out. One night Gifford and his followers seize some radio stations and broadcast a call for freedom—a rebellion that is immediately put down by the government and whose motive will remain forever obscure. Even so, it leads to twenty years of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA paranoid tour de force of political noir, \u003ci\u003eClark Gifford’s Body\u003c\/i\u003e skips back and forth in time, interspersing newspaper clippings and court transcripts with the reactions and reminiscences of the politicians, generals, businessmen, journalists, waiters, and soldiers who double as the actors and the chorus in a drama over which, finally, they have no control. Who here is leading? Who is being led? Fearing’s novel is a pseudo-documentary of a world given over to pseudo-politics and pseudo-events, a prophetic glimpse of the future as a poisonous fog.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I have not developed the habit of reading thrillers, but I have read enough of them to know that from now on Mr. Fearing is my man.”–\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Kenneth Fearing:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I have not developed the habit of reading thrillers, but I have read enough of them to know that from now on Mr. Fearing is my man.”–\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There are plenty of people currently writing variations on Fearing (possibly without being aware of it), but it’s tough to beat the stylish chill of the original.”–\u003ci\u003ePoetry Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eKENNETH FEARING\u003c\/b\u003e (1902-1961) was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Voted wittiest boy and class pessimist in high school, he moved to New York City after graduating the University of Wisconsin. He published several well received volumes of poetry in addition to his novels, including \u003ci\u003eAngel Arms\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDead Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStranger at Coney Island and other poems\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eROBERT POLITO\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eDoubles, A Reader’s Guide to James Merrill’s \u003c\/i\u003eThe Changing Light at Sandover and \u003ci\u003eSavage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson\u003c\/i\u003e. He edited the Library of America volumes, \u003ci\u003eCrime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 1940s\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCrime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s\u003c\/i\u003e, and directs the Graduate Writing Program at The New School. He lives in New York.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44863136661733,"sku":"NP9781590171820","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590171820.jpg?v=1767723789","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/clark-giffords-body-isbn-9781590171820","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}