{"product_id":"perforated-heart-9781476738956","title":"Perforated Heart","description":"\u003cb\u003eAlmost forty years after moving to Manhattan, author Richard Morris has achieved if not stratospheric renown then at least the accomplished career and caliber of fame that he envisioned for himself as a younger man.\u003c\/b\u003e Now financially comfortable and artistically embittered, Richard is at his home upstate recuperating from heart surgery and nursing resentment toward his publisher and his reading public who have found new, more exciting writers and left his star to wane. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In his attic, Richard comes across a stack of notebooks, the journals he began keeping when he arrived in New York in the late '70s. He is alternately fascinated and repelled by the young man he meets in these pages: hilariously naïve and egotistically misguided, the younger Richard compulsively absorbs everything around him from art and creativity to sex and drugs. As he reads more about himself, written by himself, Richard discovers that the pivotal moments of self-invention -- and self-realization -- occur far outside the conventional chronology of a lifetime. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003ePerforated Heart\u003c\/i\u003e explores two wholly different characters -- a young, ambitious artist and his older self, jaded by both success and failure -- and creates an unforgettable portrait of the two men who inhabit the one individual. By turns meditative, deftly observant, and scathingly analytical, Eric Bogosian re-creates the landscape and atmosphere of 1970s New York City with fresh, vivid imagery and reveals a powerful commentary on the dynamic between creativity and commerce in the artistic world. Perforated Heart is his most rewarding and penetrating novel yet, with prose that reflects an equally astonishing range of experience and emotion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Bogosian\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eMall, \u003c\/i\u003e the plays \u003ci\u003eTalk Radio, subUrbia\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGriller\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Obie Award-winning solo performances \u003ci\u003eDrinking in America, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSex, Drugs, Rock \u0026amp; Roll.\u003c\/i\u003e He is the recipient of the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Award, a Drama Desk Award, and two NEA fellowships. An actor who has appeared in more than a dozen feature films and television shows, Bogosian lives in New York City\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50415676915986,"sku":"9781476738956","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c038fe94-2059-4b92-90c8-58eea50262b3.jpg?v=1729409128","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/perforated-heart-9781476738956","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}