{"product_id":"9780998171012","title":"Barn Again: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eBarn Again: A Memoir is a historical fantasy novel set in a parallel section of the multiverse in which readers still read, agents still rep, and publishers still publish literary novels. If you are sick of zombies and MFAs, this book might be for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Barnard Jr. will do anything for his daughter, even betray his artistic ethos by writing a Pepsi-sponsored zombie novel called Space Zombies; or, Zombies From Space! so he can afford to send her to Harvard one day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarnard, infamous author of the Invasive Species series of books, first writes a collection of essays, but his agent, with a keener grasp of public tastes, burns most of the manuscript and orders him to produce a memoir, so he puts together a story covering the adventures and experiences he is comfortable sharing with the public: his experience in London as a banjo-plunking busker, his time as a bumbling eco-saboteur, his non-tenure-track tenure as a Dumpster-diving adjunct instructor. There's an accidental standoff with police that leads to the burning of his ex-wife's McMansion, a stint as a judge on Publish or Perish (a canceled reality show about undiscovered writers), and an aborted suicide-by-bear attempt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHummers are set ablaze and decorative iron bison are exterminated as Barnard, agonizing over a loss and the dissolution of his marriage, learns that antisocial behavior can be therapeutic (and good for book sales).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is also a low-speed bicycle chase.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alan Good","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49787420442864,"sku":"9780998171012","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780998171012","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}