{"product_id":"9781940953571","title":"The Invented Part","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room.\"—Jonathan Lethem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn aging writer, disillusioned with the state of literary culture, attempts to disappear in the most cosmically dramatic manner: traveling to the Hadron Collider, merging with the God particle, and transforming into an omnipresent deity—a meta-writer—capable of rewriting reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith biting humor and a propulsive, contagious style, amid the accelerated particles of his characteristic obsessions—the writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the music of Pink Floyd and The Kinks, \u003ci\u003e2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, the links between great art and the lives of the artists who create it—Fresán takes us on a whirlwind tour of writers and muses, madness and genius, friendships, broken families, and alternate realities, exploring themes of childhood, loss, memory, aging, and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing inspiration from the scope of modern classics and the structural pyrotechnics of the postmodern masters, the Argentine once referred to as \"a pop Borges\" delivers a powerful defense of great literature, a celebration of reading and writing, of the invented parts—the stories we tell ourselves to give shape to our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRodrigo Fresán\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of nine books of fiction that together compose an expansive, interconnected fictional universe—a complex system of storylines, resonances, and self-reference that call to mind the works of David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, and Roberto Bolaño.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWill Vanderhyden\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e received fellowships from the NEA and Lannan Foundation to work on \u003ci\u003eThe Invented Part\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Letter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141594104048,"sku":"9781940953571","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940953571_p0.jpg?v=1763668462","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940953571","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}