{"product_id":"the-giveaway-9798887441030","title":"The Giveaway","description":"\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Chandler Apartments\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eThe Incredible Double \u003c\/i\u003e(2010), and the previously unpublished \u003ci\u003eMayakovsky's Bugatti\u003c\/i\u003e (2025), and includes the Blackburn short story “Righteous Kill” (2021).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Yet the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","brand":"Owen Hill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48543089328379,"sku":"9798887441030","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_9496deef-6f8b-4cb5-b37f-99c31ad0c255.jpg?v=1774186580","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-giveaway-9798887441030","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}