{"product_id":"9780312421861","title":"I Am Not Jackson Pollock : Stories","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eI Am Not Jackson Pollock\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): John Haskell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bewitching collection of short fiction--haunting and hypnotic meditations on art, movies, literature, and life. In \"Dream of a Clean Slate,\" Jackson Pollock the man struggles with the separation he feels from Jackson Pollock the artist; \"The Judgement of Psycho,\" probes the sexual dynamic of Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins in Psycho, and then delves into the relationship between Hector and Paris in the Iliad; and Orson Welles presides over \"Crimes at Midnight,\" a tense evocation of desire and its consequences. A series of myths for modern times, this is an astonishing debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Haskell uses language like a surgical instrument....These are stunningly sophisticated stories in which everything is new....[Haskell] makes language seem limitless in its possibilities.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A dazzlingly inventive collection of nine uninhibited narratives that uses myths, meditation, and old-fashioned morality to examine age-old conundrums of life and art.” —\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Simultaneously charming, innovative, and moving.” —\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Haskell and his wild imagination put some fictional oomph into reality....The highly original, Hemingway-esque prose is just as colorful and provocative as Pollock's paintings.” —\u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wonderfully intelligent, audacious, and perverse collection...I savored every mythic, mesmerizing word of it.” —\u003ci\u003eJim Crace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780312421861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40656679469262,"sku":"9780312421861","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_c534dba5-bb92-44b5-bb45-e5a6cb8e83c2.jpg?v=1639452909","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780312421861","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}