{"product_id":"a-modern-way-to-die-peter-wortsman-9781949790153","title":"A Modern Way to Die","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1991, and now issued in a second edition, comprising short short fictions most written in the eighties, \u003cem\u003eA Modern Way to Die\u003c\/em\u003e by Peter Wortsman, \"predates the in-vogue term flash fiction, but it's surely one of the cornerstones of the tradition,\" (according to short form pioneer Pete Cherches). As Wortsman notes in the book's original foreword, these texts appeared \"in the absence of big things to say [...] guided only by the precarious optimism of the pen.\" Conceived as a disjointed compendium of narrative treatments of life's common denominator, death, the book's spare hit and run aesthetic gravitates from enhanced neon hyperrealist reportage to nightmare parable to plummet the surreal substrata of the American Dream. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Wortsman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1949790150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949790153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pelekinesis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d","brand":"Peter Wortsman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44076919259391,"sku":"9781949790153","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b162a553-53b3-441e-8229-0f09f266d80a.jpg?v=1685467459","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-modern-way-to-die-peter-wortsman-9781949790153","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}