{"product_id":"the-diary-of-an-unemployed-elias-sassoon-9781470155568","title":"The Diary Of An Unemployed Gentleman: : A NOVEL That Isn't","description":"What do we have? Nonfiction? Fiction? Philosophy? Who cares  We do have a man of the 20th and 21st centuries attempting to jot down his daily thoughts. We have a mental diary, or, the diary of somebody who is mental; here, here thoughts of the mental (case), rather than thoughts of the actions of the mental (case). It's a diary of a neurotic, and the neurotic is one precisely because he's not a man of action, not a person of physicality, just one whose main exercise is conjecture, speculation, and obsessive questioning. He, I, is a sportsman of his own mind. Writing about the mental grind of being unemployed in an employed world. The job, having it, a must. The means of earning the paycheck; the means of socialization in group rituals. Unemployed and presently stuck in the suburbs existing beyond time - deserted streets, distant shopping malls, emptied homes. The individual isolated and growing out of touch and out of his mind; the mind retreating into the distant past and future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elias Sassoon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1470155567\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781470155568\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 03\/06\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.34d","brand":"Elias Sassoon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44065811464447,"sku":"9781470155568","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_24224ffa-44a4-47d9-93f9-965d31063d9e.jpg?v=1685403637","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-diary-of-an-unemployed-elias-sassoon-9781470155568","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}