{"product_id":"four-new-messages-paperback","title":"Four New Messages - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoshua Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1980 in New Jersey. He is the author of five books, including \u003ci\u003eA Heaven of Others\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWitz\u003c\/i\u003e. His nonfiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Forward\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e and other publications. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.28 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 07, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771620294944,"sku":"9781555976187","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0cc66b2d720a390394779686747e17ed.webp?v=1780389757","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/four-new-messages-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}