{"product_id":"jungle-wedding-stories-paperback","title":"Jungle Wedding: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Clark\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew writers of fiction have demonstrated so early in their career such a firm grasp of the forms disaster can take as Joseph Clark does in \u003cem\u003eJungle Wedding\u003c\/em\u003e. Fewer still have been able to balance their unnerving feeling for apocalypse with an equally unerring sense of the possibilities for grace and transcendence, however provisional.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the title story a cutting-edge video artist is hired to document a shamanistic New Age wedding ceremony deep in the Central American jungle -- and gets far more than he bargained for. In \"Public Burning\" a sociological experiment in the study and surveillance of an \"average\" American spirals down into a literally incendiary conclusion. \"Wild Blue\" is a tour de force narrative of one man's collision with the scarily dysfunctional American armed forces of the 1970s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Other stories in \u003cem\u003eJungle Wedding\u003c\/em\u003e hold out possibilities for communion, reconciliation, and absolution. In \"Revenge\" emotional rescue for a psychologically besieged divorcée arrives in the form of a clearly too-young lust object, while \"Oasis\" stages a haunting father-daughter reunion in terrain reminiscent of a Sam Shepard play. Whatever his subject, Clark stakes out his territory with an imaginative authority and vigor of language that is truly exciting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 218\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081104408715,"sku":"9780393341904","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/YNZ4KXfv139780393341904.webp?v=1779879023","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/jungle-wedding-stories-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}