{"product_id":"9780385498432","title":"New York Graphic","description":"\u003cp\u003eA delicious, darkly comic work of new urban noir from an original new literary talent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet Virgil Strauss, a physically and emotionally unkempt yet somehow appealing tabloid photographer whose passion is bearing photographic witness—à la Weegee—to the obscene, malevolent and sanguine viscera of New York culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo his disapppointment and defeat, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Graphic\u003c\/i\u003e—the city's most renowned shock-based tabloid daily—has routinely rejected Virgil's work.  But when Virgil and his friend Larry Onions rip off a local church, he gets the picture of a lifetime, a job at the \u003ci\u003eGraphic\u003c\/i\u003e,  and a generous measure of trouble, leading to serious indiscretions that include (but aren't limited to): grave robbing, straining his neighbor's dog's feces for an inadvertently consumed diamond, widely circulating the work of a renowned \"art terrorist,\" and being an FBI informant in a serial bombing case.   Helping Virgil through his hard times is Marcy, HIV-positive porn-star girlfriend, whose wispy, hardened, tragic strength brings tenderness and humanity to Virgil's cold-blooded reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Graphic\u003c\/b\u003e is a winningly fresh contribution to the noir genre: alternately hilarious, vulgar, touching, seriously disturbed—and a delightfully heady reading.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011068281072,"sku":"9780385498432","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780385498432_p0.jpg?v=1769892674","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780385498432","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}