{"product_id":"golk-richard-stern-9780226773193","title":"Golk","description":"In 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGolk\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An original: sharp, funny, intelligent, rare. . . . Working in a clean, oblique style reminiscent of Nathanael West, Mr. Stern has written in\u003ci\u003e Golk\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003e National Review \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGolk\u003c\/i\u003e is fantastic, funny, bitter, intelligent without weariness. Best of all Golk is pure--that is to say necessary. Without hokum.\"--Saul Bellow \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGolk\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eReporter \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A mighty good book, altogether alive, full of beans and none of them spilled.\"--Flannery O'Connor \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Stern\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226773191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226773193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/1987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.26w x 0.47d","brand":"Richard Stern","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946349461759,"sku":"9780226773193","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_647088c1-d7ff-4831-a7b0-a96730ef14d7.jpg?v=1681512641","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/golk-richard-stern-9780226773193","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}