{"product_id":"new-york-graphic","title":"New York Graphic","description":"A delicious, darkly comic work of new urban noir from an original new literary talent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeet Virgil Strauss, a physically and emotionally unkempt yet somehow appealing tabloid photographer whose passion is bearing photographic witness--à la Weegee--to the obscene, malevolent and sanguine viscera of New York culture. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo his disapppointment and defeat, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Graphic\u003c\/i\u003e--the city's most renowned shock-based tabloid daily--has routinely rejected Virgil's work.  But when Virgil and his friend Larry Onions rip off a local church, he gets the picture of a lifetime, a job at the \u003ci\u003eGraphic\u003c\/i\u003e,  and a generous measure of trouble, leading to serious indiscretions that include (but aren't limited to): grave robbing, straining his neighbor's dog's feces for an inadvertently consumed diamond, widely circulating the work of a renowned \"art terrorist,\" and being an FBI informant in a serial bombing case.   Helping Virgil through his hard times is Marcy, HIV-positive porn-star girlfriend, whose wispy, hardened, tragic strength brings tenderness and humanity to Virgil's cold-blooded reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Graphic\u003c\/b\u003e is a winningly fresh contribution to the noir genre: alternately hilarious, vulgar, touching, seriously disturbed--and a delightfully heady reading.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50948711776544,"sku":"9780385498432","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780385498432.jpg?v=1763607652","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/new-york-graphic","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}