{"product_id":"the-whole-of-life-jurg-laederach-9781564789075","title":"The Whole of Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\"I can assure you that no movie will ever achieve the speed of prose. Human beings just haven't realized that yet.\"\"--J?rg Laederach. With tongue resolutely in cheek, saxophonist, critic, poet, and one-time enfant terrible of Swiss literature J?rg Laederach here pursues the ambition of forcing all of human existence into a single novel. \"The Whole of Life\" tells the story of a man, Robert \"Bob\" Hecht, in three sections: \"Job,\" about work and looking for work; \"Wife,\" about sex during a bout of impotence; and \"Totems and Taboos,\" in which Bob himself ruminates on the limitlessness of human limitation. In \"Life,\" space is compressed to the suffocating dimensions of a single mind, while single moments are expanded cubistically into entire landscapes. Bodies are vivisected and reassembled, and language is invaded, exploded, and reassembled. \"The Whole of Life\" sees Laederach composing a novel by taking it apart as he goes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jurg Laederach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1564789071\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781564789075\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jurg Laederach","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44068611490047,"sku":"9781564789075","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4049dd81-156f-4630-9617-e55554e13d8f.jpg?v=1685420007","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-whole-of-life-jurg-laederach-9781564789075","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}