{"product_id":"the-invented-part-rodrigo-fres-n-9781940953564","title":"The Invented Part","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room.\"--Jonathan Lethem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn aging writer, disillusioned with the state of literary culture, attempts to disappear in the most cosmically dramatic manner: traveling to the Hadron Collider, merging with the God particle, and transforming into an omnipresent deity--a meta-writer--capable of rewriting reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith biting humor and a propulsive, contagious style, amid the accelerated particles of his characteristic obsessions--the writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the music of Pink Floyd and The Kinks, \u003ci\u003e2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, the links between great art and the lives of the artists who create it--Fresán takes us on a whirlwind tour of writers and muses, madness and genius, friendships, broken families, and alternate realities, exploring themes of childhood, loss, memory, aging, and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing inspiration from the scope of modern classics and the structural pyrotechnics of the postmodern masters, the Argentine once referred to as \"a pop Borges\" delivers a powerful defense of great literature, a celebration of reading and writing, of the invented parts--the stories we tell ourselves to give shape to our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRodrigo Fresán\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of nine books of fiction that together compose an expansive, interconnected fictional universe--a complex system of storylines, resonances, and self-reference that call to mind the works of David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, and Roberto Bolaño.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWill Vanderhyden\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e received fellowships from the NEA and Lannan Foundation to work on \u003ci\u003eThe Invented Part\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rodrigo Fresán\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1940953561\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781940953564\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Letter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2017 pg. 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2017 pg. 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2017","brand":"Rodrigo Fresán","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045804601599,"sku":"9781940953564","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_445ef0aa-3b5c-4018-b608-08bf3f81d991.jpg?v=1684980861","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-invented-part-rodrigo-fres-n-9781940953564","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}