{"product_id":"9781933527796","title":"The Short Fall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eThe Short Fall\u003c\/i\u003e is a rhetorical triumph, a novel about the presidency built architecturally on language and skyscraper sentences, an impressive, high flying debut.\"—Jonathan Baumbach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Possessed of great verve and tremendous inventive muscle, Marek Waldorf offers style and substance to spare in this terrific debut. Calvino's millennial qualities are all here: but especially quickness and lightness and lots of pleasurable multiplicity. I got hits, in reading \u003ci\u003eThe Short Fall\u003c\/i\u003e —an experience, in short, that I highly recommend—of early, rollicking Javier Marias, but also of Gilbert Sorrentino and Harry Mathews too.\"—Laird Hunt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA speechwriter shot during a botched assassination starts to recover powers of speech along with pieced-together memories of the campaign he served and the candidate he helped make president of a \"bankrupt and volatile\" republic. The more the narrator remembers the more he suspects that he was the target. A frenzied, lyrical, farcical, anguished monologue on the personal and political.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaymond Chandler once wrote in a letter, \"It doesn't matter a damn what a novel is about. The only fiction of any moment in any age is that which does magic with words.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarek Waldorf does magic with words in \u003ci\u003eThe Short Fall\u003c\/i\u003e , a multilevel debut novel about a paralyzed speechwriter's relationship to his client, a charismatic presidential candidate named Vince Talbot, and about his own relationship to the written word. The novel, filled with lively effusions of wit and unexpected humor, is at once a non-ideological fly-on-the-wall exposé of how campaigns are run and a meditation on writing and creative embellishment. It's an achronological story of recovery, one that emerges slowly like an image on a Polaroid photograph.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Turtle Point Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061439316208,"sku":"9781933527796","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781933527796_p0.jpg?v=1763641177","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781933527796","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}