{"product_id":"golk-phoenix-fiction-0226773191","title":"Golk (Phoenix Fiction)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0226773191\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Stern, Richard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn midcentury America, the golden age of television, a man named Golk is wreaking havoc with the medium. Through a devastating series of exposures-\"You're on Camera\"-Golk manipulates the high and mighty, the lowdown and dirty, and the outrageous weird; all are within the compass of Richard Stern in this early novel, a comedy with as many inspired maneuvers as its rambunctious protagonist has for taking the measure of a profligate world.\"Golk is a rich and marvelously detailed novel by a man with a cultivated intelligence; it is also the first really good book I have read about television.\"-Norman Mailer\"An original: sharp, funny, intelligent, rare. . . . Working in a clean, oblique style reminiscent of Nathanael West, Mr. Stern has written in Golk a first-rate comic novel, a piece of fiction that is at once about and loaded with that kind of recognition that junkies call the flash.\"-Joan Didion, National Review\"Golk is fantastic, funny, bitter, intelligent without weariness. Best of all Golk is pure-that is to say necessary. Without hokum.\"-Saul Bellow\"Golk (like Golk himself) is a wonderous conception. Its world responds to personification, not analysis, and personify it Mr. Stern has done. A book in a thousand.\"-Hugh Kenner\"What I like about Mr. Stern's fantasy is that it has been conceived and written with so much gaiety. Far from a political melodrama, it reminds me of a René Clair movie, and even the surrealist touches needed to bring out the power and pretense of the television industry are funny rather than symbolically grim.\"-Alfred Kazin, Reporter\"A mighty good book, altogether alive, full of beans and none of them spilled.\"-Flannery O'Connor\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51678018502944,"sku":"NEW0226773191","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61u_2LWxTUL.jpg?v=1779302797","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/golk-phoenix-fiction-0226773191","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}