{"product_id":"a-contrived-world-9781564789556","title":"A Contrived World","description":"Set in San Francisco, \u003ci\u003eA Most Contrived World\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the author's visit to the mythic Californian city. While the novel is based in this real experience, the narrator's imaginative reflections cause the narrative to balloon outward into the realms of fiction and fantasy. Each chance encounter provides an opportunity to unfurl a fictional world that simultaneously complements and compromises the real world. In this mirthful anti-novel, the ambiguous fusion of observation and invention disrupts the conventions of personal memoir and travel writing, resulting in a chronicle that sets fiction against experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYoung-Moon, Jung:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Novelist, short-story writer, translator, playwright, and teacher, Jung Young-Moon was born in Hamyang, South Korea, in 1965. He graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in psychology. He made his literary debut in 1996 when his novel \u003ci\u003eA Man Who Barely Exists\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also translated more than forty English books into Korean.","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50420193952018,"sku":"9781564789556","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9aedc6ae-fe2a-4a1c-a84a-613ec940111a.jpg?v=1729491305","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-contrived-world-9781564789556","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}