{"product_id":"a-portable-chaos-e-m-schorb-9780578954981","title":"A Portable Chaos","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003e A Portable Chaos\u003c\/em\u003e opens with a stream-of-conscious-ness flash-back to a childhood incidents that resemble James Joyce's \"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,\" which gains significance as the novel unfolds. The main character, Jimmy Whistler, is a decent guy overflowing with un-tapped potential, who walks away from opportunities and the wrong sort of success and follows his bliss as a poet. Whistler and his friend Marsayas, a Zoroastrian hippie, belong to the generation of men who were possible or actual cannon fodder during the U.S.A. war in Vietnam, the generation that witnessed the end of the dominant myth of American difference, or American innocence. After a pretty squalid time living \"la vie Boheme\" (vividly written, conjuring up the ghosts of 1960s' past), Whistler emerges from the slough and finds validation, the girl, fame, fortune, content-ment, and reconciliation with all those childhood demons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e E. M. Schorb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0578954982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780578954981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hill House New York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 476\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d","brand":"E. M. Schorb","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48850173198591,"sku":"9780578954981","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-portable-chaos-e-m-schorb-9780578954981","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}