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In midcentury America, one man is determined to dominate the airwaves with an application 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 key her, on camera, into betraying her true dynamics. The greater combative the personality, the better the joke, and help snare his subjects Golk enlists a team of misfits, including Herbert Hondorp, a scholarly layabout transformed photogenic decoy, and Jeanine Hendricks, a 23-year-old debutante with a bitter worldview. But Golk has bigger programs than just getting average Manhattanites unawares. As popular as You're on Camera is becoming, 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 play with surreal hilarity and delivering a remarkably prescient view of the future of television set, Golk ranks with Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust as one of the finest novels ever discussed the American entertainment industry.
