{"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\u003cbr\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","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872539283730,"sku":"9780316323277","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ca96be4b-a2cd-4d54-a378-f31160768b95.jpg?v=1737901263","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gone-with-the-mind-9780316323277","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}