{"product_id":"a-goddamn-infinite-emergency-john-mandel-9780997843606","title":"A Goddamn Infinite Emergency: Love Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe narrator of each love story is not a hero or an antihero, but one of us; flawed, ambivalent, obsessive, trying to make it through the day, through his relations, with some poise. He is poignantly immersed in a pilgrimage not only to come to understand his own nature and the nature of his fixations, but the immense, unstable space between, a byzantine riddle. Communion seems impossible; to be struck dumb is often his only response.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Being inside John Mandel's brain is an intoxicating experience, similar to a Dostoyevsky Notes From Underground encounter or something closer to American gothic master, John Hawkes. Mandel's genius is high satirical narcissism, wounded, giddy, desperately comedic, a man at the end of one's rope, every sentence pressured, sweated over, pleasurable. Sexual anguish, lusciously rendered: it is fiction as self-induced trauma, and it is beautiful.\" - Benjamin Weissman\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"John Mandel's writing is twisted in the ways that most of us are twisted. It is also brilliant in the ways that most of us are not. A Goddamn Infinite Emergency is a groundbreaking collection of stories, recalling the work of Milan Kundera.\" - Michael Schiffer Writer of Colors, Lean On Me, and Crimson Tide\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"John Mandel tangles the longing for others into a longing for the right word. His stories are told in a vivid first person that oscillates between grand erudition and a madly compressed singularity. LThe intimacy of this voice bristles with intelligence and startling humor as it explores the disorienting complexity of being a person.\" - David Humphrey, Artist \u0026amp; Author Blind Handshake, an anthology of his art writing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Mandel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0997843608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780997843606\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Solipsis Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.41d","brand":"John Mandel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44717190578431,"sku":"9780997843606","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1a4ae28e-1aaa-420b-80c7-3495daa330f8.jpg?v=1705687335","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-goddamn-infinite-emergency-john-mandel-9780997843606","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}