{"product_id":"my-amputations-clarence-major-9781573661430","title":"My Amputations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOriginally published in 1986, this new edition returns to print a classic, influential work of American fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The author of the acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eReflex and Bone Structure\u003c\/i\u003e returns here in \u003ci\u003eMy Amputations\u003c\/i\u003e to the question of identity, the double, adventure, detection, and mystery, but with more hypnotic power and range. In \u003ci\u003eMy Amputations\u003c\/i\u003e he has his protagonist, Mason Ellis (who may just be \"a desperate ex-con\" or a wronged American novelist out to right the wrong done to him), jump through flaming loops like a trained dog, so to speak. In other words, there seems to be no end to the troubles Mason Ellis faces. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e His story takes him from the South Side of Chicago, to New York, with a stint in Attica prison, across America and Europe and into the primal depths of Africa. Mason, all the while, tries to convince the reader that he is the important American writer he says he is. Upon his release from prison he sets out to prove his claim. After an audacious bank-robbery and a couple of burglaries that are hilarious, he goes into hiding to escape the malice of one of his cohorts, and eventually flees to Europe. The irony is that he is now as much the runner as the seeker. After encounters with a Zuni ex-folksinger, kidnappers, the New York underworld, literary groupies, an Italian swordsman, a violent German secret society, and an anti-bellum cotillion in rural Greece, he finds himself face to face (behind a mask) with his own destiny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Clarence Major\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1573661430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781573661430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e F2c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.58h x 5.71w x 0.57d","brand":"Clarence Major","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44245305819391,"sku":"9781573661430","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9834000c-dc0a-417e-9201-6c7344fd3471.jpg?v=1693927284","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-amputations-clarence-major-9781573661430","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}