{"product_id":"the-novel-paul-hoover-9780811211482","title":"The Novel: Poem","description":"Paul Hoover's \u003cem\u003eThe Novel\u003c\/em\u003e is a booklength poem written in response to the author's experience of having his first novel, \u003cem\u003eSaigon, Illinois\u003c\/em\u003e (Vintage, 1988), published after a mere six months in the making. Hoover examines the privilege of the novelist from the poet's point of view, asking in both astonishment and disappointment: why is the novelist at once the most lordly and common of authors? A mosaic in organization, the poem's thirty parts mix, among others, Shakespeare and deconstructionist \"shoptalk\" with an account of Graceland when Elvis was alive and a gloss of the mass-market paperback of James M. Cain's \u003cem\u003eThe Enchanted Isle\u003c\/em\u003e, whose heroine Mandy appears in the poem as the fictive author's lover. \u003cem\u003eThe Novel\u003c\/em\u003e presents no dichotomy between pop culture and the intensely literary, resisting closure by replicating the counterpoint speed of obsessive TV channel-changing. \"The closer the look one takes at a world\/the greater the distance from which it looks back.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Hoover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811211487\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811211482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.64h x 5.08w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/12\/1990","brand":"Paul Hoover","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48517461508351,"sku":"9780811211482","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_572d24ef-72f9-4531-9a29-defa4599b3be.jpg?v=1778731945","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-novel-paul-hoover-9780811211482","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}