Going Down
Author: Markson, David
ISBN: 9781593760649
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 04 Mar 2005
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback / softback
Unlike David Markson's most recent works, including i>Vanishing Point/i> and i>Wittgenstein's Mistress,/i> which David Foster Wallace described as "pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country," his early novel, i>Going Down,/i> 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.br>br>When 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.br>br>i>Going Down/i> 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.
ISBN: 9781593760649
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 04 Mar 2005
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback / softback
Unlike David Markson's most recent works, including i>Vanishing Point/i> and i>Wittgenstein's Mistress,/i> which David Foster Wallace described as "pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country," his early novel, i>Going Down,/i> 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.br>br>When 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.br>br>i>Going Down/i> 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.
