{"product_id":"9781593760649","title":"Going Down","description":"\u003cbr\u003eUnlike David Markson’s most recent works, including \u003ci\u003eVanishing Point\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein’s Mistress,\u003c\/i\u003e which David Foster Wallace described as \"pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country,\" his early novel, \u003ci\u003eGoing Down,\u003c\/i\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.\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\u003ci\u003eGoing Down\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036845031664,"sku":"9781593760649","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781593760649_p0.jpg?v=1763809140","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781593760649","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}