{"product_id":"antkind-charlie-kaufman-9780399589690","title":"Antkind","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar(R)-winning screenwriter of \u003ci\u003eBeing John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Synecdoche, New York\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE - \"A dyspeptic satire that owes much to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon . . . propelled by Kaufman's deep imagination, considerable writing ability and bull's-eye wit.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An astonishing creation . . . riotously funny . . . an exceptionally good [book].\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review - \u003c\/i\u003e\"Kaufman is a master of language . . . a sight to behold.\"--NPR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND \u003ci\u003eMEN'S HEALTH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film made by an enigmatic outsider--a film he's convinced will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core. His hands on what is possibly the greatest movie ever made--a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety years to complete--B. knows that it is his mission to show it to the rest of humanity. The only problem: The film is destroyed, leaving him the sole witness to its inadvertently ephemeral genius. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e All that's left of this work of art is a single frame from which B. must somehow attempt to recall the film that just might be the last great hope of civilization. Thus begins a mind-boggling journey through the hilarious nightmarescape of a psyche as lushly Kafkaesque as it is atrophied by the relentless spew of Twitter. Desperate to impose order on an increasingly nonsensical existence, trapped in a self-imposed prison of aspirational victimhood and degeneratively inclusive language, B. scrambles to re-create the lost masterwork while attempting to keep pace with an ever-fracturing culture of \"likes\" and arbitrary denunciations that are simultaneously his b黎e noire and his raison d'黎re. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A searing indictment of the modern world, \u003ci\u003eAntkind \u003c\/i\u003eis a richly layered meditation on art, time, memory, identity, comedy, and the very nature of existence itself--the grain of truth at the heart of every joke.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charlie Kaufman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0399589694\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780399589690\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.60d","brand":"Charlie Kaufman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44055145152767,"sku":"9780399589690","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a867f0e4-598d-4448-89f5-455aa85cc571.jpg?v=1685034048","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/antkind-charlie-kaufman-9780399589690","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}