Going Down

David Markson

Original title: Going down

earliest edition we have, 1970 Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005 paperback 288 pages

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, s...

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Going Down paperback · 2005 · Shoemaker & Hoard · 288 pages · 9781593760649
Going down edition · 2002 · Herdias
Going down. edition · 1970 · Holt, Rinehart, Winston · 278 pages

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