{"product_id":"9780982684870","title":"Seven Days in Rio","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The funniest American novel since Sam Lipsyte's \u003ci\u003eThe Ask\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A ribald chronicle of [a] 60-something Manhattan accountant, who's come to Rio de Janeiro as a sex tourist. [A] fever dream of a novel.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Levy delivers a visceral blend of hilarious satire and study in human sexuality, taking us on a deviant tour of Rio.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eInterview Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI have come to regard almost everything that happens in human life as a form of therapy.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo muses Kenny Cantor, always dapper in his seersucker suit from the Brooks Brothers 346 collection. Kenny is a CPA, amateur psychoanalyst, and sex-tourist vacationing in Rio when he gets waylaid at a psychoanalytic conference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat ensues is a provocative journey that merges sex and psychoanalysis through Rio's tawdry netherworld of Susan Sontag-quoting denizens as only an incendiary voice like Francis Levy could imagine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancis Levy\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eErotomania: A Romance\u003c\/i\u003e, a Queerty.com Top 10 Book of 2008 and an \u003ci\u003eInland Empire Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Standout Book of 2008. His short stories, criticism, humor, and poetry have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035644739824,"sku":"9780982684870","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780982684870_p0.jpg?v=1763881441","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982684870","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}