{"product_id":"9781636140711","title":"Random","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom Penn Jillette of the legendary magic duo Penn \u0026amp; Teller: a rollicking crime caper that will bend your mind like a spoon.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \"Penn Jillette is an atheist, triple-goddamned lunatic, and his book is a glorious Las Vegas lunatic paean to chance and adventure—a page-turning, scabrous, hilarious ride into randomness.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Neil Gaiman\u003c\/strong\u003e \"Jillette's latest novel, \u003cem\u003eRandom\u003c\/em\u003e, is about a young man who inherits his father's crushing debt to a loan shark and turns to dice—and other dangerous measures—to dig himself out. That the dice bring him luck sends him a new philosophy of leaving decisions both big and small up to chance.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Two weeks before his twenty-first birthday, Las Vegas native Bobby Ingersoll finds out he’s inherited a crushing gambling debt from his scumbag father. The debt is owed to an even scummier bag named Fraser Ruphart who oversees his bottom-rung criminal empire from the classy-adjacent Trump International Hotel. Bobby’s prospects of paying off the note, which comes due the day he turns twenty-one, are about as dim as the sign on the hotel’s facade. The two weeks pass in the blink of a (snake) eye, but before Bobby’s luck runs out, he stumbles upon enough cash to pay off Ruphart and change his family’s fortune. More importantly, he finds himself with a new, for lack of a better word, faith. Bobby does not consign his big break to a “higher power”—what Penn Jillette hero ever could? Instead, he devises and devotes himself to Random, a philosophy where his life choices are based entirely on the roll of his “lucky” dice. What follows is a rollicking exploration into not so much what defines us as what \u003cem\u003edivines\u003c\/em\u003e us when we give over every decision—from what to eat to whom to marry to how or when to die—to the random fall of two numbered cubes.\u003cem\u003eRandom\u003c\/em\u003e combines the intellectual curiosity of Richard Dawkins with the humor and grit of an Elmore Leonard antihero. Jillette’s up-on-his-luck Ingersoll is the character we need to help us navigate the chaos of the post-truth era. Well, unless his roll runs cold.","brand":"Akashic Books, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064354259184,"sku":"9781636140711","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781636140711_p0.jpg?v=1763683710","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781636140711","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}