{"product_id":"2940169062281","title":"The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRainn Wilson's memoir about growing up geeky and finally finding his place in comedy, faith, and life. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. Viewers of \u003ci\u003eThe Office\u003c\/i\u003e fell in love with the character and grew to love the actor who played him even more. Rainn founded a website and media company, SoulPancake, that eventually became a bestselling book of the same name. He also started a hilarious Twitter feed (sample tweet: \"I'm not on Facebook\" is the new \"I don't even own a TV\") that now has more than four million followers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, he's ready to tell his own story and explain how he came up with his incredibly unique sense of humor and perspective on life. He explains how he grew up \"bone-numbingly nerdy before there was even a modicum of cool attached to the word.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Bassoon King\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles his journey from nerd to drama geek (\"the highest rung on the vast, pimply ladder of high school losers\"), his years of mild debauchery and struggles as a young actor in New York, his many adventures and insights about \u003ci\u003eThe Office\u003c\/i\u003e, and finally, Wilson's achievement of success and satisfaction, both in his career and spiritually, reconnecting with the artistic and creative values of the Bahá'í faith he grew up in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47097689997552,"sku":"2940169062281","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169062281_p0.jpg?v=1763759063","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169062281","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}