{"product_id":"2940148410867","title":"John the Posthumous","description":"\"After reading Jason Schwartz, it's difficult to talk about any other writer's originality or unique relation to the language. John the Posthumous is a work of astounding power and distinction, beautifully strange, masterful.\" -Sam Lipsyte\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Schwartz] is complete, as genius agonizingly is.\" -Gordon Lish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Haunting, original prose by a writer unlike any other on the planet. Jason Schwartz is a master.\" -Ben Marcus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn the Posthumous exists in between fiction and poetry, elegy and history: a kind of novella in objects, it is an anatomy of marriage and adultery, an interlocking set of fictional histories, and the staccato telling of a murder, perhaps two murders. This is a literary album of a pre-Internet world, focused on physical elements - all of which are tools for either violence or sustenance. Knives, old iron gates, antique houses in flames; Biblical citations, blood and a history of the American bed: the unsettling, half-perceived images, and their precise but alien manipulation by a master of the language will stay with readers. Its themes are familiar - violence, betrayal, failure - its depiction of these utterly original and hauntingly beautiful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJason Schwartz is also the author of A German Picturesque (Knopf, 1998).","brand":"OR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111392985328,"sku":"2940148410867","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148410867_p0.jpg?v=1763702125","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148410867","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}