{"product_id":"going-down-9781593760649","title":"Going Down","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Markson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Catapult\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Catapult\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45411649716375,"sku":"9781593760649","price":1376.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781593760649.webp?v=1767444143","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/going-down-9781593760649","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}