{"product_id":"the-giveaway-the-clay-blackburn-story-paperback","title":"The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOwen Hill\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJonathan Lethem\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClay Blackburn--poet, book scout, and sometimes detective--cruises the mean, and sometimes not so mean, streets of Berkeley. With his accomplices, a soldier of fortune, a \"defrocked\" FBI agent, and a smooth and sexy con man, he lives a life of bisexual sensation with a little crime solving on the side. As such, Blackburn is a sly, witty, and more or less reliable raconteur of the last thirty something years of the Bay Area's radical bohemia and bookselling. And in the tradition of Ian Rankin's Edinburgh, and Jean-Claude Izzo's Marseilles, bears uncomfortable witness to Berkeley's descent from countercultural paradise to neoliberal inferno.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis omnibus collection collects the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Chandler Apartments\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eThe Incredible Double \u003c\/i\u003e(2010), and the previously unpublished \u003ci\u003eMayakovsky's Bugatti\u003c\/i\u003e (2025), and includes the Blackburn short story \"Righteous Kill\" (2021).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Yet the more we get to know him, the more we're persuaded Blackburn is a Pure Product of Berkeley. He's not only queer, but a queer sort of all else he declares himself to be: a queer sort of detective, a queer sort of Communist or Anarchist, and beyond--a queer sort of gourmet, ethical thinker, cat owner, and--for certain--a queer sort of narrator.\"--Jonathan Lethem, from the Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.74 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 27, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44284563161223,"sku":"9798887441030","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ENjgnmi1R9798887441030.webp?v=1774734622","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-giveaway-the-clay-blackburn-story-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}