{"product_id":"gone-with-the-mind-mark-leyner-9780316323277","title":"Gone with the Mind","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe blazingly inventive fictional autobiography of Mark Leyner, one of America's \"rare, true original voices\" (Gary Shteyngart).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Dizzyingly brilliant, raucously funny, and painfully honest, \u003ci\u003eGone with the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Mark Leyner's life, told as only Mark Leyner can tell it. In this utterly unconventional novel -- or is it a memoir? -- Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a New Jersey shopping mall. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The \"audience\" consists of Mark's mother and some stray Panda Express employees, who ask a handful of questions. The action takes place entirely at the food court, but the territory covered in these pages has no bounds. A joyride of autobiography, cultural critique, DIY philosophy, biopolitics, video games, demagoguery, and the most intimate confessions, \u003ci\u003eGone with the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is both a soulful reckoning with mortality and the tender story of the relationship between a complicated mother and an even more complicated son. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At once nostalgic and acidic, deeply humane, and completely surreal, \u003ci\u003eGone with the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of pure, hilarious genius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Leyner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0316323276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316323277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Back Bay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d","brand":"Mark Leyner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946449371391,"sku":"9780316323277","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_587aba2b-c669-41b6-b26e-47b52b7a82bc.jpg?v=1681513216","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gone-with-the-mind-mark-leyner-9780316323277","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}