{"product_id":"9780062087324","title":"There Is No Year: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Butler is an original force who is fearless with form. . . . [an] inventive and deeply promising young author.\" —\u003cem\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Butler's] sentences. . . twist and evolve, and there's a perverse joy that comes from watching just how his paragraphs are shaped, of tracing their contractions and rhythms.\" —\u003cem\u003eFlavorpill\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith echoes of Justin Taylor, Tony O’Neill, and Dennis Cooper, breakout novelist Blake Butler delivers a wildly inventive, impressionistic novel of family, sickness, and the wrenching birth of art. Evocative of Mark Z. Danielewski’s \u003cem\u003eHouse of Leaves \u003c\/em\u003eand the films of David Lynch, \u003cem\u003eThere Is No Year \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a fractured, dystopian parable about the struggle and survival of art, identity, and family. As the Toronto \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail \u003c\/em\u003esays, “if the distortion and feedback of Butler's intense riffing is too loud, you may very well be too boring.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107741647088,"sku":"9780062087324","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780062087324_p0.jpg?v=1769912658","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780062087324","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}