{"product_id":"four-new-messages-joshua-cohen-9781555976187","title":"Four New Messages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA quartet of audacious fictions that capture the pathos and absurdity of life in the age of the internet, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Netanyahus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e*A\u003c\/i\u003e New York Times Book\u003ci\u003e Review Editors' Choice*\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e* \u003c\/i\u003eOne of Flavorwire's \"50 Books That Define the Past Five Years in Literature\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA spectacularly talented young writer has returned from the present with \u003ci\u003eFour New Messages\u003c\/i\u003e, urgent and visionary dispatches that seek to save art, sex, and even alienation from corporatism and technology run rampant. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Emission,\" a hapless drug dealer in Princeton is humiliated when a cruel co-ed exposes him exposing himself on a blog gone viral. \"McDonald's\" tells of a frustrated pharmaceutical copywriter whose imaginative flights fail to bring solace because of a certain word he cannot put down on paper. In \"The College Borough\" a father visiting NYU with his daughter remembers a former writing teacher, a New Yorker exiled to the Midwest who refuses to read his students' stories, asking them instead to build a replica of the Flatiron Building. \"Sent\" begins mythically in the woods of Russia, but in a few virtuosic pages plunges into the present, where an aspiring journalist finds himself in a village that shelters all the women who've starred in all the internet porn he's ever enjoyed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHighbrow and low-down, these four intensely felt stories explain what happens when the virtual begins to colonize the real -- they harness the torrential power and verbal dexterity that have established Cohen as one of America's most brilliant younger writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1555976182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555976187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/07\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.28h x 5.04w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/04\/2012 pg. 27\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/17\/2013 pg. 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/24\/2013 pg. 22","brand":"Joshua Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44202130505983,"sku":"9781555976187","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1cff1737-f52e-4d58-89f4-20fc0f84a2db.jpg?v=1691493385","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/four-new-messages-joshua-cohen-9781555976187","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}