| Golk Contributor(s): Stern, Richard (Author), Rodgers Jr, Bernard F. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0226773191 ISBN-13: 9780226773193 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $25.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1987 Annotation: It 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 87016217 |
| Series: Phoenix Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.26" W x 7.99" (0.40 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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, Reporter "A mighty good book, altogether alive, full of beans and none of them spilled."-Flannery O'Connor |
Contributor Bio(s): Stern, Richard: - Richard Stern (1928-2013) was a novelist, short-story writer, and, at the time of his death, the Helen Regenstein Emeritus Professor of English and of the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He was the author of twenty-one works of fiction and nonfiction. He published his first novel, Golk, in 1960 and the last, Pacific Tremors, in 2001. In 1985, he received the Medal of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Additional honors included a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Heartland Prize. |