{"product_id":"the-logos-9781955904223","title":"The Logos","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJaded and adrift, a young painter in New York joins his fate to a mercurial titan of industry in the hopes of finding a new artistic form—and quite possibly a new life. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eCutting-edge intoxicants, the vagaries of desire, and an obscure art magazine with unlimited ambitions collide on the ultimate stage, where only delusion can ease the chase of mystique. In an epic new novel ranging across acting, advertising, professional sports, and the city, Mark de Silva offers up a grand meditation on the bitter glories of 21st century being, the human impulse to search for something original in the cacophony of a continuously replicating world, and the self-revelations living in our perception of others. The Logos is a sweeping and intimate inquiry into all things New York, and now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bidding to join the company of the postmodern titans who dominated late-20th-century American fiction: Gaddis, Gass, DeLillo, Wallace… A hefty old-school social novel”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e― Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In this provocative epic of ideas from de Silva…the result is an original, formidable portrayal of American commerce, where everything—including one’s vision—can be bought and sold.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e―\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublishers Weekly, Starred Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mark de Silva is high among the remnant few whose writing still justifies the writing of novels. He has earned this distinction by treating the novel not as a form but as a formative languaging of the world that spins and tilts beneath the reader.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e―Joshua Cohen, author of The Netanyahus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The Logos \u003c\/em\u003eis an intellectual novel not subject to intellectual clichés; a psychological novel not determined by psychological theories; a complex novel of characters not restricted to characters’ beliefs; and a masterful depiction of the search for an intellectual life not determined by intellectuality, in a time when the intellect has stopped being commonly understood as essential for social life—or even survival.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e―\u003cstrong\u003eGermán Sierra, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Artifact\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The Logos \u003c\/em\u003eis a seance, a conjuring of unbodily plasmas, blackbox TV metaphysics for the word-made-without-commentary. Flaring outward from a collective dreamwork into \u003cem\u003ethe shape of things to\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ecome\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Logos \u003c\/em\u003eis autoluminescent realism transacted at godspeed, in Panavision. Its truth is the obsequious banality of an infinite soap opera, reeling out the testaments, loop-ing and branching through countless subplots, ad-breaks, sales pitches, product placements, only to lead inevitably back to that perennial cave, Platonistic cinematheque— its resident mirror-gang armed with oxygen masks and image duplicators, waiting on the far side of the psychic screen for you, the literal voyeur, to summon them.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e―\u003cstrong\u003eLouis Armand, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Combinations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mark de Silva's \u003cem\u003eThe Logos\u003c\/em\u003e stands with some of the best novels of the century: The Known World, Middle C, and A Naked Singularity. It's a dark mountain with vertiginous switchbacks-it quests to ask why we \"love\" those who use us, those who feast on our souls.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e―\u003cstrong\u003eGreg Gerke, author of \u003cem\u003eSee What I See\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clash Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51864251990359,"sku":"9781955904223","price":27.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781955904223.jpg?v=1759921775","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-logos-9781955904223","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}