{"product_id":"2940152002041","title":"Circuits of the Wind (Volume 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMeet Ray Valentine: he's a young Internet user going online with his computer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd that's amazing, because it's the '80s and the net's still completely underground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn ambitious, sprawling and poetic coming-of-age novel told in three volumes, Circuits of the Wind is the story of Ray Valentine, a Midwest slacker who grows up in the online underground of the '80s and '90s, looking for a connection that's always just a little out of reach, and learning all the lessons that the rest of us are only facing now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stutz writes with a grandness that exceeds the deadpan expectations that are associated with his generation of writers ... with all the grandeur of the influential [F. Scott] Fitzgerald himself.\" -- Kilimanjaro magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Michael Stutz has created the Everyman of our wired age.\" -- Tony D'Souza, author of Whiteman, The Konkans, and Mule, which has been optioned for film by Warner Bros.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The descriptive passages in the book are funny, true to life and quite lyrical. Michael Stutz has an amazing ability with words ... [r]ead this book to learn the story of the beginning of the \"net\" generation. I believe Circuits of the Wind will be savored by techies, geeks and computer nerds.\" -- Library of Clean Reads\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA coming of age tale of the early internet and the impact on an unsuspecting world, \"Circuits of the Wind\" provides a very human story set on a backdrop of technology few truly understand, very much recommended. -- Midwest Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The descriptive passages in the book are funny, true to life and quite lyrical. Michael Stutz has an amazing ability with words ... [r]ead this book to learn the story of the beginning of the \"net\" generation. I believe Circuits of the Wind will be savored by techies, geeks and computer nerds.\" -- Library of Clean Reads\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume 1 of Circuits of the Wind follows a young Raymond from his '70s childhood—and first gropings with the telephone—to the home computers and bulletin boards of the '80s, where he leads a double life as a wanderer of the wires. But when even his virtual best friend unplugs, Raymond might have to leave it, too—because isn't real life supposed to be offline?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Confiteor Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075943645424,"sku":"2940152002041","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152002041_p0.jpg?v=1764020100","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152002041","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}