{"product_id":"literal-madness-book-kathy-acker-9780802131560","title":"Literal Madness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKathy Goes to Haiti\u003c\/em\u003e, the first of three novels in \u003cem\u003eLiteral Madness\u003c\/em\u003e, Speaks to us out of a delightful mock-na'vet  that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane readers rewritten as manuals for politics and sex . . . . At once hilarious and terrifying,  it] has all the logic of a Caribbean tour and a nightmare combined (\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Death My Life\u003c\/em\u003e by Pier Paolo Pasolini - wherein, among other things, the late Italian filmmaker solves his own murder, with the help of, among others, Romeo, Juliet, and the Bront  sisters - is a scathing commentary on false values in art (\u003cem\u003eThe Hartford Courant\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the haunting \u003cem\u003eFlorida\u003c\/em\u003e, Acker achieves a nearly telegraphic reduction of the Bogart-Bacall movie \u003cem\u003eKey Largo\u003c\/em\u003e to fatalistic, tough-guy essentials. (\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49730522186001,"sku":"NGR9780802131560","price":27.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49762551529745,"sku":"CIN0802131565G","price":8.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49929882730769,"sku":"GOR002558565","price":10.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50461323198737,"sku":"CIN0802131565A","price":5.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50920799142161,"sku":"GOR002811438","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007312691473,"sku":"NIN9780802131560","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52657646305553,"sku":"CIN0802131565VG","price":8.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0802131565.jpg?v=1751296796","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/literal-madness-book-kathy-acker-9780802131560","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}