{"product_id":"the-four-spent-the-day-together-paperback","title":"The Four Spent the Day Together - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChris Kraus\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eLA Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2025\u003cbr\u003e A \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Recommended Book of 2025 \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Chris Kraus reinvents the true-crime novel.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"[Kraus's] version of a classic American tragedy...a dazzling, refined work, formally and otherwise--at once tracking the far-reaching tentacles of addiction, and the trajectory of an almost unrecognizable America.\" --\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eA critically acclaimed novel from Chris Kraus--author of the classic \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick, \u003c\/i\u003ea cult literary figure, and one of autofiction's truest innovators--about addiction, violence, and the American underclass.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn Minnesota's Iron Range, on the cold, depressed fringes of the so-called meth community, three teenagers shoot and kill an older acquaintance and are quickly arrested and imprisoned. Catt Greene, living nearby with her husband, Paul, soon becomes obsessed with the case, turning away from her personal turmoil--her husband's compulsive drinking, her uneasy moves between the art world of LA and the rural poverty or northern Minnesota--and toward an investigation of the teenagers' brutal, desperate lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Expansive and piercing, linking together the stories of Catt's childhood, her marriage, and this ruthless, arbitrary murder, \u003ci\u003eThe Four Spent the Day Together\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting journey into the decline of the American working class\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChris Kraus is a writer and critic. She studied acting and spent almost two decades making performances and experimental films in New York before moving to Los Angeles where she began writing. Her novels include \u003ci\u003eAliens \u0026amp; Anorexia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTorpor\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSummer of Hate\u003c\/i\u003e. She has published three books of cultural criticism--\u003ci\u003eVideo Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Where Art Belongs\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSocial Practices\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick\u003c\/i\u003e was adapted for television and she is also the author of the literary biography \u003ci\u003eAfter Kathy Acker\u003c\/i\u003e. A former Guggenheim Fellow, Kraus held the Mary Routt Chair of Writing at Scripps College in 2019 and was Writer-in-Residence at ArtCenter College of Design between 2020-2024. She has written for various magazines and has been a coeditor of the independent press Semiotext(e) since 1990. Her work has been praised for its damning intelligence, vulnerability, and dazzling speed and has been translated into seventeen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 13, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67847658832179,"sku":"9781668098691","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/kpt83fVn-09781668098691.webp?v=1793494867","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-four-spent-the-day-together-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}