{"product_id":"cunus-christian-mcdonough-9798261737346","title":"Cunus","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Anxiety Press\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCunus\u003c\/i\u003e is a ritual, a purging. McDonough is grasping at high magic.\" \u003cb\u003e- Michael Liska\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If \u003ci\u003eCunus\u003c\/i\u003e was song, oh boy oh boy, I'd be swinging and cutting a rug to this tune. Who wouldn't?\" \u003cb\u003e- Omar King\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Christian McDonough is one of the most exciting writers working today. The usual accolades don't quite do him justice: honest, funny, inventive; more importantly, stimulating, free, shockingly uninterested in genre or established form. He isn't trying to impress, but this is why he is so charming. He isn't trying to be serious, but this is why his work is so layered with depth. He isn't trying to be ambitious, but he wrote a book of a thousand poems. A true original with no clear antecedent in a sea of same-old scenester posturing and flyover-state Bukowski imitations. But there is no bitterness here, no resentment. He isn't trying to be different, he isn't trying to be better, he just is.\" \u003cb\u003e- Nicholas Clemente\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Texas-based poet and experimentalist, Christian McDonough, comes a project unlike anything else in the landscape of 21st century literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten over the course of four weeks, \u003ci\u003eCunus\u003c\/i\u003e is an attempt to overcome the self. Our narrator, also named Christian McDonough, excavates his history and reckons with his upbringing. Yet what sounds on the surface like \"autofiction\" soon reveals its depths, expanding to include a cast of characters (both real and imagined) as haunting as the face of any deep sea fish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on 20th century philosophy and psychoanalysis, the roiling muck of the internet, ancient mythology, the mania of post-9\/11 America, and the fraught realities of adolescence, \u003ci\u003eCunus\u003c\/i\u003e is a psychedelic odyssey through the strange and sublime that paints a portrait of a young man who may save the world, if he doesn't choose to end it instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christian McDonough\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798261737346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.47d","brand":"Christian McDonough","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997904187647,"sku":"9798261737346","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cunus-christian-mcdonough-9798261737346","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}