{"product_id":"9781627795975","title":"I Like Being Killed: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eFiendishly funny and dark, here is a \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e for the millennium, a vision of the New Europe where the young and bright live ultra-hip lives of noisy desperation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTibor Fischer has been called \"a Joseph Conrad with jokes\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, London). Now he earns the title again with a story collection that ranges from the blackest, high-voltage humor  to sober and moving pessimism about the sorry condition of humans at the new millennium. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere are those left behind by the vacuous nineties: a failed software designer who cannot connect with others, a failed artist, a failed cowboy, a failed solicitor-seducer, a bookseller primed for failure as he tries to read every book in the world, and a venomous stand-up comedienne who has fallen from grace. From London to the French Riviera, from Hamburg to Romania, in the new Europe only the ruthless succeed: the weak are cowed by the strong, the rich fleece the poor, and the ugly is bested by the surgically enhanced. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReveling in the absurdities of his characters' predicament's, Fischer rescues them from a relentlessly dark fate. Laced with exuberant narrative and matchless comic invention, \u003ci\u003eI Like Being Killed\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the struggle of intelligence to make sense of our twentry-first century world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book was also published under the title \u003ci\u003eDon't Read This Book If You're Stupid\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47184261841136,"sku":"9781627795975","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781627795975_p0.jpg?v=1769905436","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781627795975","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}