{"product_id":"jungle-wedding-joseph-clark-9780393341904","title":"Jungle Wedding: Stories","description":"Few writers of fiction have demonstrated so early in their career such a firm grasp of the forms disaster can take as Joseph Clark does in \u003cem\u003eJungle Wedding\u003c\/em\u003e. Fewer still have been able to balance their unnerving feeling for apocalypse with an equally unerring sense of the possibilities for grace and transcendence, however provisional.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the title story a cutting-edge video artist is hired to document a shamanistic New Age wedding ceremony deep in the Central American jungle -- and gets far more than he bargained for. In \"Public Burning\" a sociological experiment in the study and surveillance of an \"average\" American spirals down into a literally incendiary conclusion. \"Wild Blue\" is a tour de force narrative of one man's collision with the scarily dysfunctional American armed forces of the 1970s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Other stories in \u003cem\u003eJungle Wedding\u003c\/em\u003e hold out possibilities for communion, reconciliation, and absolution. In \"Revenge\" emotional rescue for a psychologically besieged divorcée arrives in the form of a clearly too-young lust object, while \"Oasis\" stages a haunting father-daughter reunion in terrain reminiscent of a Sam Shepard play. Whatever his subject, Clark stakes out his territory with an imaginative authority and vigor of language that is truly exciting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393341909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393341904\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d","brand":"Joseph Clark","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47965134815487,"sku":"9780393341904","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2727bc48-a6cd-4250-ba9c-e07924932d72.jpg?v=1767278630","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jungle-wedding-joseph-clark-9780393341904","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}