{"product_id":"9780692629567","title":"Surviving Myself: True Revelations of a False Life","description":"The true stories of one man's journey to define humanity in the face of the absurdity of life. The book is character driven, focused on relationships and love, with powerful, vernacular dialogue, poignant insights, hilarity, and a defining uniqueness both in form and honesty.\u003cp\u003eFunny, powerful and sometimes shocking. Always sexy and provocative, Surviving Myself implicates existentialism, Plato, Christianity, altruism, and the philosophy of sense perception. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in the end, it's a love story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genre of this book is a memoir, which is different than a biography because the subject is in control of the lie. :) Even though it may seem like a random recollection, it is very much a purposeful march.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt and Artist: \"The productive artist begins with that re-creation of himself which results in an ideologically constructed ego; this ego is then in a position to shift the creative will-power from his own person to ideological representations of that person and thus render it objective.\" Otto Rank, 1943.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile my stories are subjective, my purpose is sublime.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Sidney Jones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49980819603696,"sku":"9780692629567","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692629567","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}