{"product_id":"the-character-jasper-m-ellison-9798271641503","title":"The Character","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat happens when the boundary between creation and creator dissolves?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man opens his eyes in a room that should be familiar, yet nothing in it belongs to him-not the objects, not the silence, not even his own sense of origin. What he believed to be memory feels rehearsed, as if someone-or something-had written it before he could live it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe soon discovers a manuscript describing his every gesture with impossible precision. It does not \u003ci\u003eimitate\u003c\/i\u003ehis life. It \u003ci\u003eprecedes\u003c\/i\u003e it. And the hand that wrote it may be closer than he dares to imagine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs reality folds in on itself, authorship becomes suspect: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIs he a man trapped inside a story-or a story that once believed itself to be a man?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Character\u003c\/i\u003e is a psychological and metaphysical novel about the moment when consciousness recognises itself not as a source, but as an \u003cb\u003eeffect\u003c\/b\u003e-a byproduct of narrative. It explores identity not as a possession, but as a place where someone else is already waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdeal for readers of \u003cb\u003eBorges, Mark Z. Danielewski, Calvino, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Cormac McCarthy's metaphysical mode\u003c\/b\u003e, this novel blurs the line between page and presence, asking a question that cannot be safely unanswered: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf someone is writing you-when did you stop being real?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA work of speculative literary fiction where the most dangerous space is not the page, but the self that tries to escape it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jasper M. Ellison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798271641503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/26\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d","brand":"Jasper M. Ellison","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49171350782207,"sku":"9798271641503","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-character-jasper-m-ellison-9798271641503","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}