Golk
by Richard Stern
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0226773191
- ISBN 13
- 9780226773193
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Paperback / softback. New. In 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. "Golk 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 "An original: sharp, funny, intelligent, rare. . . . Working in a clean, oblique style reminiscent of Nathanael West, Mr. Stern has written in Golk 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, National Review "Golk is fantastic, funny, bitter, intelligent without weariness. Best of all Golk is pure--that is to say necessary. Without hokum."--Saul Bellow "Golk (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 "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 Rene 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, Reporter "A mighty good book, altogether alive, full of beans and none of them spilled."--Flannery O'Connor
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- A9780226773193
- Title
- Golk
- Author
- Richard Stern
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0226773191
- ISBN 13
- 9780226773193
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- This edition first published
- 1987-08
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