{"product_id":"going-down-isbn-9781593760649","title":"Going Down","description":"Unlike David Markson's most recent works, including \u003ci\u003eVanishing Point\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein's Mistress,\u003c\/i\u003e which David Foster Wallace described as \"pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country,\" his early novel, \u003ci\u003eGoing Down,\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoing Down\u003c\/i\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.\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.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303873630437,"sku":"NP9781593760649","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781593760649.jpg?v=1767728279","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/going-down-isbn-9781593760649","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}