Golk

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Humorous, Literary
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Author: Richard Stern ISBN: 9781497685284
Publisher: Open Road Media Publication: December 16, 2014
Imprint: Open Road Media Language: English
Author: Richard Stern
ISBN: 9781497685284
Publisher: Open Road Media
Publication: December 16, 2014
Imprint: Open Road Media
Language: English

“The first really good book I have read about television.” —Norman Mailer

In midcentury America, one man is determined to take over the airwaves with a program as audacious as it is entertaining. Bald, bombastic, and irresistible, Golk is his name and You’re On Camera is his show. To “golk” someone is to trick her, on camera, into betraying her true nature. The more combative the personality, the better the joke, and to help trap his victims Golk enlists a team of misfits, including Herbert Hondorp, a scholarly layabout turned photogenic decoy, and Jeanine Hendricks, a twenty-three-old debutante with a bitter worldview.

But Golk has bigger plans than just catching average Manhattanites unawares. As popular as You’re On Camera has become, he knows the show is capable of making a greater, more transformative impact. The question is, will Herbert and Hendricks go along with his revolutionary agenda? Or will they bow to the power of the network and the seduction of celebrity?

Combining high drama with surreal hilarity and presenting a remarkably prescient view of the future of television, *Golk *ranks with Nathanael West’s *The Day of the Locust *as one of the finest novels ever written about the American entertainment industry.

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“The first really good book I have read about television.” —Norman Mailer

In midcentury America, one man is determined to take over the airwaves with a program as audacious as it is entertaining. Bald, bombastic, and irresistible, Golk is his name and You’re On Camera is his show. To “golk” someone is to trick her, on camera, into betraying her true nature. The more combative the personality, the better the joke, and to help trap his victims Golk enlists a team of misfits, including Herbert Hondorp, a scholarly layabout turned photogenic decoy, and Jeanine Hendricks, a twenty-three-old debutante with a bitter worldview.

But Golk has bigger plans than just catching average Manhattanites unawares. As popular as You’re On Camera has become, he knows the show is capable of making a greater, more transformative impact. The question is, will Herbert and Hendricks go along with his revolutionary agenda? Or will they bow to the power of the network and the seduction of celebrity?

Combining high drama with surreal hilarity and presenting a remarkably prescient view of the future of television, *Golk *ranks with Nathanael West’s *The Day of the Locust *as one of the finest novels ever written about the American entertainment industry.

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