{"product_id":"manning-jason-carlisle-9798298873956","title":"Manning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eManning\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA novel by Jason Carlisle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRufus Manning is unemployed, unhinged and slowly coming undone. Trapped in a decaying flat and haunted by bureaucratic absurdities, he spirals into a hallucinatory war with the world around him - a world that resembles Britain, but warped through paranoia, working-class despair, and a soldier's fever dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eManning\u003c\/i\u003e is a darkly comic descent into fractured identity, institutional failure, and the coping fantasies of a man on the brink. Blending literary grit with surreal satire, the novel follows Rufus through trench fantasies, elevator nightmares, paper mâché doppelgängers, and a final flight that may be real - or just another delusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in a blistering stream-of-consciousness style, \u003ci\u003eManning\u003c\/i\u003e is both grotesque and profound - a savage portrait of collapse and resistance, where every Tuesday bleeds into the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jason Carlisle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798298873956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d","brand":"Jason Carlisle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997150556415,"sku":"9798298873956","price":8.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/manning-jason-carlisle-9798298873956","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}