{"product_id":"pan-9780593834428","title":"Pan","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003ePan\u003c\/i\u003e] has literary circles buzzing . . . Rendered in dazzling prose, Clune's debut novel paints a luminous portrait of the unique psychosis that growing up in suburbia can foster.\" ―\u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I steal language and ideas from Michael Clune.\" ―Ben Lerner, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of \u003ci\u003eThe Topeka School\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA strange and brilliant teenager's first panic attacks lead him down the rabbit hole in this wild, highly anticipated debut novel from one of our most distinctive literary minds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicholas is fifteen when he forgets how to breathe. He had plenty of reason to feel unstable already: He's been living with his dad in the bleak Chicago suburbs since his Russian-born mom kicked him out. Then one day in geometry class, Nicholas suddenly realizes that his hands are \u003ci\u003eobjects\u003c\/i\u003e. The doctor says it's just panic, but Nicholas suspects that his real problem might not be a psychiatric one: maybe the Greek god Pan is trapped inside his body. As his paradigm for his own consciousness crumbles, Nicholas; his best friend, Ty; and his maybe-girlfriend, Sarah, hunt for answers why--in Oscar Wilde and in Charles Baudelaire, in rock and roll and in Bach, and in the mysterious, drugged-out Barn, where their classmate Tod's charismatic older brother Ian leads the high schoolers in rituals that might end up breaking more than just the law. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrilling, cerebral, and startlingly funny, \u003ci\u003ePan\u003c\/i\u003e is a new masterpiece of the coming-of-age genre by Guggenheim fellow and literary scholar Michael Clune, whose memoir of heroin addiction, \u003ci\u003eWhite Out\u003c\/i\u003e--named one of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's best books of the year--earned him a cult readership. Now, in \u003ci\u003ePan\u003c\/i\u003e, the great novel of our age of anxiety, Clune drops us inside the human psyche, where we risk discovering that the forces controlling our inner lives could be more alien than we want to let ourselves believe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Clune \u003c\/b\u003eis the critically acclaimed author of the memoirs \u003ci\u003eGamelife\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhite Out: The Secret Life of Heroin\u003c\/i\u003e. His academic books include \u003ci\u003eA Defense of Judgment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Writing Against Time\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature and the Free Market\u003c\/i\u003e. Clune's work has appeared in venues ranging from \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eBehavioral and Brain Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePMLA\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Chronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has been recognized by fellowships and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, and others. He is currently the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University and lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51475494568210,"sku":"9780593834428","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e826533c-ee37-4bcd-be8a-bc512406af98.jpg?v=1752596167","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pan-9780593834428","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}