{"product_id":"9781770890039","title":"Life Is About Losing Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the wildly controversial books \u003ci\u003eLiar\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePaul's Case\u003c\/i\u003e comes one of the most anticipated — and perhaps, in some quarters, feared — books of the year. This is author Lynn Crosbie at her most honest, most cutting, most hilarious, and most heartbreaking. The stories told here are a repository of a seven-year period in the author's life; they are also a gymnasium where she can flex her prodigious wit and her dazzling stash of literary tricks. Deft with matters both low- and highbrow (here are stories about '80s big-hair bands and the lasting, theological value of the \u003ci\u003eRocky\u003c\/i\u003e series; here, too are stories contemplating critical theory and fine art), \u003ci\u003eLife Is About Losing Everything\u003c\/i\u003e speaks with manic yet grave authority about risking and losing everything, and then sorting through the remains to discover what is beautiful, what is trash, and what, ultimately, belongs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"House of Anansi Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058978406640,"sku":"9781770890039","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770890039_p0.jpg?v=1763706858","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770890039","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}