{"product_id":"four-new-messages","title":"Four New Messages","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eFour New Messages\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJoshua Cohen\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781555976187\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eGraywolf Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2012\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e193\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA quartet of audacious fictions that capture the pathos and absurdity of life in the age of the internet, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Netanyahus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e*A\u003c\/i\u003e New York Times Book\u003ci\u003e Review Editors' Choice*\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e* \u003c\/i\u003eOne of Flavorwire's \"50 Books That Define the Past Five Years in Literature\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA spectacularly talented young writer has returned from the present with \u003ci\u003eFour New Messages\u003c\/i\u003e, urgent and visionary dispatches that seek to save art, sex, and even alienation from corporatism and technology run rampant. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Emission,\" a hapless drug dealer in Princeton is humiliated when a cruel co-ed exposes him exposing himself on a blog gone viral. \"McDonald's\" tells of a frustrated pharmaceutical copywriter whose imaginative flights fail to bring solace because of a certain word he cannot put down on paper. In \"The College Borough\" a father visiting NYU with his daughter remembers a former writing teacher, a New Yorker exiled to the Midwest who refuses to read his students' stories, asking them instead to build a replica of the Flatiron Building. \"Sent\" begins mythically in the woods of Russia, but in a few virtuosic pages plunges into the present, where an aspiring journalist finds himself in a village that shelters all the women who've starred in all the internet porn he's ever enjoyed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHighbrow and low-down, these four intensely felt stories explain what happens when the virtual begins to colonize the real -- they harness the torrential power and verbal dexterity that have established Cohen as one of America's most brilliant younger writers.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Four New Messages | Joshua Cohen | Paperback | 9781555976187 | New | Fiction 1287250","offer_id":50550596468994,"sku":"1287250","price":30.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71TEvTyYbpL.jpg?v=1790469518","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/four-new-messages","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}