{"product_id":"9781632460264","title":"Metaphysical Ukulele","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Leave it to the audacious Sean Carswell to crack the code on this secret society of writers, especially after so many other publications (the \u003ci\u003eBeliever\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eBitch\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e ) have tried and failed. I'm humbled and grateful to be immortalized in this wily, coltish collection with fellow strummers Flannery, Herman and weird old Uncle Thom.\"—Pam Houston\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"On the surface, Carswell is a literary chameleon, moving effortlessly in and out of voices, genres, and styles, but underneath and above that, he is a born storyteller, always focused on his characters' hearts and minds and fitting ends.\"—Ben Loory, author of \u003ci\u003eStories for Nighttime and Some for the Day\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe all know Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, Thomas Pynchon, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, and Pam Houston. Now meet their metaphysical ukuleles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMixing the flair of literary invention with real events in each writer's life—Herman Melville living with a tribe of cannibals; Raymond Chandler holding \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Dahlia \u003c\/i\u003e hostage from Paramount Studios; Flannery O'Connor falling in love; Chester Himes threatening to decapitate his landlord, and many more—Sean Carswell takes the nonfiction of some our most famous writer's lives and turns it into exquisite fiction, with a ukulele thrown in for good measure. At times heartbreaking, at times absurd, the stories in this truly one-of-a-kind collection delightfully blur the line between what is life, and what is literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eSean Carswell \u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eDrinks for the Little Guy\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eTrain Wreck Girl\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eMadhouse Fog\u003c\/i\u003e , and the short story collections \u003ci\u003eBarney's Crew \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGlue and Ink Rebellion\u003c\/i\u003e . He co-founded the independent book publisher Gorsky Press and the music magazine \u003ci\u003eRazorcake\u003c\/i\u003e . He currently teaches writing and literature at California State University, Channel Islands.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram Publisher Services","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064291049712,"sku":"9781632460264","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/378081293.jpg?v=1759627810","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781632460264","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}