{"product_id":"2940170946440","title":"The Crossed-Out Notebook : A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Academy Award-winning cowriter of \u003ci\u003eBirdman\u003c\/i\u003e, a wonderfully eccentric, suspenseful debut in the tradition of \u003ci\u003eMisery\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKiss of the Spiderwoman\u003c\/i\u003e about a screenwriter kidnapped by a world-famous director who orders him to compose a masterpiece.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePablo, a failed Argentine novelist-turned-screenwriter, has been kidnapped by the greatest Latin American film director of all time and is kept in a basement where he works, day after day, on what he is told must at all costs be a great, world-changing screenplay. Every night, after finishing work on the script, Pablo writes in his notebook and every morning he crosses out what he wrote the night before. \u003ci\u003eThe Crossed-Out Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e is Pablo's diary of this time: being brought food by a maid; being threatened with a gun; vociferously arguing with the director about what he's written the previous day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe clash between the two men and their different approaches leads to a movie being made, a gun going off, an unlikely escape, and a final confrontation. In the end, \u003ci\u003eThe Crossed-Out Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e is a darkly funny novel full of intrigue and surprise about the essence of the creative process; a short, crazy ode to any artist whose brilliance shines through strangeness and adversity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ray Perreault","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150835761392,"sku":"2940170946440","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170946440_p0.jpg?v=1763721234","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170946440","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}