{"product_id":"2940149857784","title":"A Man Without a Story","description":"A Man Without a Story is about a man who believes he killed his father in a rebellious teenaged confrontation. His guilt for this virtual crime shadows an adult life spent obsessively exercising body and mind, searching for love and purpose. Hugh's sudden death sets off the author's pursuit of his friend's missing story, an attempt to solve the mystery of his crippled life. Was it solely guilt that made him dissipate his great gifts in fanatical workouts and unresolved jousts with ideas--Freud and Kant and Feyman--and his war with the fevered, unjust culture around him? Hugh's unfulfilled life spirals down through a series of doomed affairs until an accident nearly kills him. Long, past hope, he is saved by finding the right woman. It seems like a miracle. Yet there is something in Hugh that resists any salvation, and his struggle evolves toward a denouement neither he nor a reader could have predicted. The revelation of his multiple identity is a shock--instead of a final resolution it leaves his life even more deeply insoluble, yet in a very human way, comprehensible.","brand":"Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073072775408,"sku":"2940149857784","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149857784_p0.jpg?v=1763726008","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149857784","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}