{"product_id":"the-recognitions-penguin-classics-0140187081","title":"The Recognitions (Penguin Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0140187081\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Gaddis, William\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the \"ur-text of postwar fiction\" and the \"first great cultural critique, which, even if Heller and Pynchon hadn't read it while composing \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eV.\u003c\/i\u003e, managed to anticipate the spirit of both-\u003ci\u003eThe Recognitions\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterwork about art and forgery, and the increasingly thin line between the counterfeit and the fake. Gaddis anticipates by almost half a century the crisis of reality that we currently face, where the real and the virtual are combining in alarming ways, and the sources of legitimacy and power are often obscure to us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51870868013344,"sku":"NEW0140187081","price":102.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71EoWmpm2bL.jpg?v=1781711171","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-recognitions-penguin-classics-0140187081","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}