{"product_id":"new-york-graphic-adam-lloyd-baker-9780385498432","title":"New York Graphic","description":"A delicious, darkly comic work of new urban noir from an original new literary talent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeet Virgil Strauss, a physically and emotionally unkempt yet somehow appealing tabloid photographer whose passion is bearing photographic witness--  la Weegee--to the obscene, malevolent and sanguine viscera of New York culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo his disapppointment and defeat, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Graphic\u003c\/i\u003e--the city's most renowned shock-based tabloid daily--has routinely rejected Virgil's work. But when Virgil and his friend Larry Onions rip off a local church, he gets the picture of a lifetime, a job at the \u003ci\u003eGraphic\u003c\/i\u003e, and a generous measure of trouble, leading to serious indiscretions that include (but aren't limited to): grave robbing, straining his neighbor's dog's feces for an inadvertently consumed diamond, widely circulating the work of a renowned \"art terrorist,\" and being an FBI informant in a serial bombing case. Helping Virgil through his hard times is Marcy, HIV-positive porn-star girlfriend, whose wispy, hardened, tragic strength brings tenderness and humanity to Virgil's cold-blooded reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Graphic\u003c\/b\u003e is a winningly fresh contribution to the noir genre: alternately hilarious, vulgar, touching, seriously disturbed--and a delightfully heady reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Lloyd Baker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0385498438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385498432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/18\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Adam Lloyd Baker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46250436985087,"sku":"9780385498432","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5da529e3-83e6-4a91-b99a-34a100d71bb5.jpg?v=1729600316","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/new-york-graphic-adam-lloyd-baker-9780385498432","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}