{"product_id":"first-person-richard-flanagan-9780525435778","title":"First Person","description":"Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, thinks he's finally caught a break when he's offered $10,000 to ghostwrite the memoir of Siegfried \"Ziggy\" Heidl, the notorious con man and corporate criminal. Ziggy is about to go to trial for defrauding banks for $700 million; they have six weeks to write the book.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But Ziggy swiftly proves almost impossible to work with: evasive, contradictory, and easily distracted by his still-running \"business concerns\"--which Kif worries may involve hiring hitmen from their shared office. Worse, Kif finds himself being pulled into an odd, hypnotic, and ever-closer orbit of all things Ziggy. As the deadline draws near, Kif becomes increasingly unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir, or if Ziggy is rewriting \u003ci\u003ehim\u003c\/i\u003e--his life, his future, and the very nature of the truth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By turns comic, compelling, and finally chilling, \u003ci\u003eFirst Person\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting look at an age where fact is indistinguishable from fiction, and freedom is traded for a false idea of progress.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Flanagan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0525435778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525435778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.10d","brand":"Richard Flanagan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50546073043199,"sku":"9780525435778","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/first-person-richard-flanagan-9780525435778","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}