{"product_id":"golk-paperback-1","title":"Golk - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Stern\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBernard F. Rodgers Jr\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is midcentury America, the golden age of television, and 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Stern\u003c\/b\u003e, professor of English at the University of Chicago, is the author of many works of fiction, including \u003ci\u003eOther Men's Daughters, Natural Shocks, \u003c\/i\u003e and the recent, much-acclaimed \u003ci\u003eA Father's Words\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 7.99 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 31, 1987\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53146193690931,"sku":"9780226773193","price":53.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/XXewpOaCN-9780226773193_3784f714-607f-4120-9120-a3d8e1829756.webp?v=1773863678","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/golk-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}