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Going Down

A Novel

David Markson

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English
Counterpoint
04 March 2005
Unlike David Markson's most recent works, including Vanishing Point and Wittgenstein's Mistress, which David Foster Wallace described as ""pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country,"" his early novel, Going Down, is a more traditional effort, a masterfully plotted narrative set in Mexico in the 1960s. Three Americans, a man and two women, are living together in obvious intimacy. Their habits, strange to the Mexicans, are strangest of all to themselves.

When Fern Winters' attention is caught by movement behind a window in a run-down Greenwich Village apartment building, she can't suspect that her encounter with the apartment's occupant will eventually lead her to be come upon in an abandoned chapel, in a tiny mountain village-clutching the bloody machete with which one of the three has been murdered.

Going Down is a rarity among novels-brilliantly and poetically written, faultlessly constructed, centered on fully realized people, and yet completely uninhibited in its depiction of startling eroticism.
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Imprint:   Counterpoint
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 209mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   354g
ISBN:   9781593760649
ISBN 10:   1593760647
Pages:   290
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

David Markson is the author of five novels, including Springer's Progress, Wittgenstein's Mistress, and Reader's Block. He is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Salon Book Award. He lives in New York City.

Reviews for Going Down: A Novel

"""A very contemporary, very literate record of despair: all of it in fact seems to be taking place in darkness, in shadows, in the rain, or in the secret criminal places of the heart. . . supremely successful."""


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