{"product_id":"9780997843606","title":"A Goddamn Infinite Emergency: Love Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe narrator of each love story is not a hero or an antihero, but one of us; flawed, ambivalent, obsessive, trying to make it through the day, through his relations, with some poise. He is poignantly immersed in a pilgrimage not only to come to understand his own nature and the nature of his fixations, but the immense, unstable space between, a byzantine riddle. Communion seems impossible; to be struck dumb is often his only response.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Being inside John Mandel's brain is an intoxicating experience, similar to a Dostoyevsky Notes From Underground encounter or something closer to American gothic master, John Hawkes. Mandel's genius is high satirical narcissism, wounded, giddy, desperately comedic, a man at the end of one's rope, every sentence pressured, sweated over, pleasurable. Sexual anguish, lusciously rendered: it is fiction as self-induced trauma, and it is beautiful.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Benjamin Weissman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"John Mandel's writing is twisted in the ways that most of us are twisted. It is also brilliant in the ways that most of us are not. A Goddamn Infinite Emergency is a groundbreaking collection of stories, recalling the work of Milan Kundera.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Michael Schiffer\u003cbr\u003eWriter of Colors, Lean On Me, and Crimson Tide\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"John Mandel tangles the longing for others into a longing for the right word. His stories are told in a vivid first person that oscillates between grand erudition and a madly compressed singularity. LThe intimacy of this voice bristles with intelligence and startling humor as it explores the disorienting complexity of being a person.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- David Humphrey, \u003cbr\u003eArtist \u0026amp; Author Blind Handshake, an anthology of his art writing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Solipsis Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49785449349360,"sku":"9780997843606","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780997843606","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}