{"product_id":"mfa-jennifer-l-lassen-9781479145027","title":"Mfa: The Novel","description":"John is an alcoholic writer who drinks to keep writing and writes to keep drinking. While studying for his MFA at Emerson College, he records his day-to-day existence in the city of Boston, writes about his experiences in workshops and dive bars, and reads literary biographies. Of the seven American-born writers awarded the Nobel Prize, five were alcoholics, and he follows their staggered footsteps into a cycle of recurring situations, volatile relationships, and similarly disturbing encounters that threatens to push him over the edge. He might be gathering a wealth of material for his autobiographical thesis-but will he survive to actually complete the program? Full of seedy sex scenes, rebellion, dysfunction, dark humor and self-destruction, MFA is a defining installment in the gritty genre of transgressive fiction. \"Rapczynski does it again with MFA: plunges us into the seedy underbelly-this time in the form of a young alcoholic whose drinking, sex life, and ambitions are equally promiscuous. In the tradition of Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs, in MFA the narrator rises above his narrative-sharp, witty, sad, and grimily real-so we can't help but like and feel for him. Read it and weep.\" -Elizabeth Inness-Brown, author of Burning Marguerite\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer L. Lassen,Jason Rapczynski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1479145025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479145027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/12\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/22\/2013","brand":"Jennifer L. Lassen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458654187775,"sku":"9781479145027","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9debf022-ab25-48c6-bf5a-5fd4bf995419.jpg?v=1777405780","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mfa-jennifer-l-lassen-9781479145027","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}