{"product_id":"gone-with-the-mind-9780316323277","title":"Gone with the Mind","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe blazingly inventive fictional autobiography of Mark Leyner, one of America's rare, true original voices (Gary Shteyngart).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Dizzyingly brilliant, raucously funny, and painfully honest, \u003ci\u003eGone with the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Mark Leyner's life, told as only Mark Leyner can tell it. In this utterly unconventional novel -- or is it a memoir? -- Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a New Jersey shopping mall. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The audience consists of Mark's mother and some stray Panda Express employees, who ask a handful of questions. The action takes place entirely at the food court, but the territory covered in these pages has no bounds. A joyride of autobiography, cultural critique, DIY philosophy, biopolitics, video games, demagoguery, and the most intimate confessions, \u003ci\u003eGone with the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is both a soulful reckoning with mortality and the tender story of the relationship between a complicated mother and an even more complicated son. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At once nostalgic and acidic, deeply humane, and completely surreal, \u003ci\u003eGone with the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of pure, hilarious genius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Leyner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Back Bay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316323277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Leyner\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eGone with the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sugar Frosted Nutsack; My Cousin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMy Gastroenterologist\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eEt Tu, Babe\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Tetherballs of Bougainville\u003c\/i\u003e. His nonfiction includes the #1 New York Times bestseller \u003ci\u003eWhy Do Men Have Nipples?\u003c\/i\u003e. Leyner cowrote the movie \u003ci\u003eWar, Inc\u003c\/i\u003e. He currently lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40078493909107,"sku":"9.78032E+12","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_c5f20320-ead5-4ff1-a9b0-fe62454c4478.jpg?v=1652191544","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/gone-with-the-mind-9780316323277","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}