{"product_id":"readers-block-9781564781321","title":"Reader's Block","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this spellbinding  utterly unconventional fiction  an aging author who is identified only as Reader contemplates the writing of a novel. As he does  other matters insistently crowd his mind - literary and cultural anecdotes  endless quotations attributed and not  scholarly curiosities - the residue of a lifetimes reading which is apparently all he has to show for his decades on earth. Out of these unlikely yet incontestably fascinating materials - including innumerable details about the madness and calamity in many artists and writers lives  the eternal critical affronts  the startling bigotry  the countless suicides - David Markson has created a novel of extraordinary intellectual suggestiveness. But while shoring up Readers ruins with such fragments  Markson has also managed to electrify his novel with an almost unbearable emotional impact. Where Reader ultimately leads us is shattering.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67896581226549,"sku":"ByrdShop_1564781321","price":60.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781564781321.jpg?v=1793777501","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/readers-block-9781564781321","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}