{"product_id":"gone-tomorrow-by-gary-indiana","title":"Gone Tomorrow by Gary Indiana","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"container container--50 u-separator-bottom\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"container__content u-separator-right\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"post-text\"\u003e\n\u003csection\u003e\n\u003cdiv itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFootloose and broke, the unnamed narrator of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGone Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e hops on a plane without asking questions when his director friend offers him a role in an art film set in Colombia. But from the moment he arrives at the airport in Bogotá, only to witness a policeman beat a beggar half to death, it becomes clear that this will not be the story of gritty bohemians triumphing against the odds. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe director, Paul Grosvenor, seems more interested in manipulating his cast than in shooting film. The cult star, Irma Irma, is a vamp too bored and boring to draw blood. And the beautiful, nymph-like Michael Simard doesn't seem to be putting out. Meanwhile, the film's shady financier is sleeping with his mother, while a serial killer skulks about the area killing tourists. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEverything comes to a head when the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ecarnaval\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecelebration begins in nearby Cali. But once the fiesta is over, all that's left are ghostly memories and the narrator's insistence on telling the tale. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Unlike the majority of pointedly AIDS-era novels,\" writes Dennis Cooper, \" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGone Tomorrow\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis neither an amoral nostalgia fest nor a thinly veiled wake-up call hyping the religion of sobriety. It's a philosophical work devised by a writer who's both too intelligent to buy into the notion that a successful future requires the compromise of collective decision and too moral to accept bitterness as the consequence of an adventurous life.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback \/ 240 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44059671199959,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/files\/9781609808631.jpg?v=1693570534","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.pro\/products\/gone-tomorrow-by-gary-indiana","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}