{"product_id":"the-perspectives-sonny-gast-9781738754205","title":"The Perspectives","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a novel of wanderlust, the simplest joys, youth and disillusionment, a raw portrayal of traveling and being misplaced in the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt twenty-two, Sonny travels alone for the first time in Vietnam where he socializes and has relationships he's only fantasized and read about. He returns home to Canada and becomes obsessed with traveling, wanting to abandon his prior life and future to travel indefinitely. He boards a bus to Montreal, Quebec. Yet the memory of his first trip reels through the streets of Montreal. He meets Alex, a French woman who tempts him with the hidden knowledge of his obsessions. Soon he leaves to continue his journey through Ontario where he befriends Melody, an exotic dancer, reunites with Tracy, an international student from Vietnam, and then to British Columbia where he finds nothing but an origin, a start to further departures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonny, lost in his brutal observations, is trying to rationalize a world that is constantly beating him with experience. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAutobiographical fiction. Told in a minimalist, punctuation-sparse, descriptive prose. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sonny Gast\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1738754200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781738754205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sonny Gast\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.53d","brand":"Sonny Gast","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48800549110015,"sku":"9781738754205","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-perspectives-sonny-gast-9781738754205","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}