{"product_id":"9781933846484","title":"Count Geiger's Blues","description":"Count Geiger's Blues follows the adventures of Xavier Thaxton, arts editor at a major Southern daily called the Salonika Urbanite. Thaxton thinks himself a superior man. His aesthetic standards are so lofty that he regards superheroes as pop-culture cock-and-bull, rock music as audible rubbish, and soap operas as the contemptible spew of script-writing committees.\u003cbr\u003eWhile skinny-dipping in a pool polluted with radioactive waste, Thaxton is afflicted with superpowers all his own and becomes that which he most scorns. A radiation-induced ailment, the Philistine Syndrome, forces him to assume the persona of comic-book hero Count Geiger to allay its career- and indeed life-threatening symptoms.\u003cbr\u003eMichael Bishop's Count Geiger Blues, a novel of intellectual heft and self-spoofing kitsch, is a take on superheroes like no other: a rollicking foray into high and low culture that mines the vicissitudes and tragedies of everyday life for serious belly laughs and bona fide heartbreak.","brand":"Fairwood Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049556295920,"sku":"9781933846484","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781933846484_p0.jpg?v=1763640773","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781933846484","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}