{"product_id":"jungle-wedding-stories-9780393341904","title":"Jungle Wedding: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joseph Clark\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew writers of fiction have demonstrated so early in their career such a firm grasp of the forms disaster can take as Joseph Clark does in \u003cem\u003eJungle Wedding\u003c\/em\u003e. Fewer still have been able to balance their unnerving feeling for apocalypse with an equally unerring sense of the possibilities for grace and transcendence, however provisional.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the title story a cutting-edge video artist is hired to document a shamanistic New Age wedding ceremony deep in the Central American jungle -- and gets far more than he bargained for. In \"Public Burning\" a sociological experiment in the study and surveillance of an \"average\" American spirals down into a literally incendiary conclusion. \"Wild Blue\" is a tour de force narrative of one man's collision with the scarily dysfunctional American armed forces of the 1970s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Other stories in \u003cem\u003eJungle Wedding\u003c\/em\u003e hold out possibilities for communion, reconciliation, and absolution. In \"Revenge\" emotional rescue for a psychologically besieged divorcée arrives in the form of a clearly too-young lust object, while \"Oasis\" stages a haunting father-daughter reunion in terrain reminiscent of a Sam Shepard play. Whatever his subject, Clark stakes out his territory with an imaginative authority and vigor of language that is truly exciting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408846676119,"sku":"9780393341904","price":1693.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780393341904.webp?v=1767310660","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/jungle-wedding-stories-9780393341904","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}