{"product_id":"9781775132608","title":"The Old Neighbourhood","description":"Jim, a student, returns to his hometown for another summer to discover the place he remembers disintegrating in a surreal twilight. And the possibility of an undiagnosed mental illness.\u003cp\u003eA surrealistic romp through the psychedelic hyperbole of adolescence at its late-stage death-psychosis. What is unsettling Jim isn't the absurdity of it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Old Neighbourhood is an experiment in style, nudging in the avant-garde tradition of exposure. With its lens turned on the out-of-focus, the familiar becomes as an illusion and everything is novel when experience becomes unanchored from a mundane frame of reference, when things are seen in the hazard beyond the order of our own nostalgia for what has come to seem uncomplicated and trustworthy understanding. Satirical and challenging, The Old Neighbourhood draws spiritual influence from the Beat Generation writers, Anthony Burgess, Thomas Pynchon, The Idea Of Joyce, Hunter S. Thompson, and can probably be originally blamed on Vladimir Nabokov.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alex Gage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032321671408,"sku":"9781775132608","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781775132608_p0.jpg?v=1763709008","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781775132608","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}