Going Down

A Novel

By: David Markson

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Paperback | 4 March 2005

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292 Pages

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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 villageclutching the bloody machete with which one of the three has been murdered.

Going Down is a rarity among novelsbrilliantly and poetically written, faultlessly constructed, centered on fully realized people, and yet completely uninhibited in its depiction of startling eroticism.

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"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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