Going Down

<p>Unlike David Markson's most recent works including <em>Vanishing Point</em> and <em>Wittgenstein's Mistress </em> which David Foster Wallace described as "pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country" his early novel <em>Going Down </em> is a more traditional effort a masterfully plotted narrative set in Mexico in the 1960s. Three Americans a man and two women are living together in obvious intimacy. Their habits strange to the Mexicans are strangest of all to themselves.</p><p>When Fern Winters' attention is caught by movement behind a window in a run-down Greenwich Village apartment building she can't suspect that her encounter with the apartment's occupant will eventually lead her to be come upon in an abandoned chapel in a tiny mountain village--clutching the bloody machete with which one of the three has been murdered.</p><p><em>Going Down</em> is a rarity among novels--brilliantly and poetically written faultlessly constructed centered on fully realized people and yet completely uninhibited in its depiction of startling eroticism.</p>