{"product_id":"travesty","title":"Travesty","description":"\u003cem\u003eTravesty\u003c\/em\u003e is John Hawkes's most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror. In the south of France, an elegant sports car is speeding through the night, bearing a man, his daughter, and his best friend toward a fatal crash. As he drives, the \"privileged man\" justifies, in a sustained monologue, his firm opinion that willed destruction is the ultimate act of the poetic imagination. \"What I have in mind is an 'accident' so perfectly contrived that it will be unique, spectacular and instantaneous, a physical counterpart to that vision in which it was in fact conceived.\" Concerned with sex, myth, the imagination, and the absurd, \u003cem\u003eTravesty\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most cruelly and vibrantly ironic works to be found in twentieth-century literature.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833681096909,"sku":"9780811222167","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_8ecc1359-3cf0-4cb2-9d45-e239bc35ec93.jpg?v=1790892791","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/travesty","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}