{"product_id":"9781566892940","title":"The Impossibly: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhen a hit man takes a sabbatical to focus on love, his bosses aren’t happy in an award-winning debut novel that earns comparison to Paul Auster and Kafka.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e When the anonymous narrator botches an assignment from the clandestine organization that employs him, everyone in his life becomes a participant in his punishment. In the end, he is called out of retirement for a final assignment: to seek and identify his own assassin.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A supple, near-surreal noir thriller that is “innovative, comic, bizarre and beautiful, \u003ci\u003eThe Impossibly\u003c\/i\u003e reads as if Donald Barthelme were channeling Alain Robbe-Grillet, Samuel Beckett, Ben Marcus, and reruns of Get Smart” (\u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This new edition includes an introduction by Percival Everett, an afterword by the author, and the novella, “Green Metal Door,” the first edition’s “lost chapter.”","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146643423472,"sku":"9781566892940","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566892940_p0.jpg?v=1763791370","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566892940","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}