{"product_id":"the-instructions-13th-anniversary-bar-mitzvah-edition-9781952119736","title":"The Instructions: 13th Anniversary Bar Mitzvah Edition","description":"Beginning with a chance encounter with the beautiful Eliza June Watermark and ending, four days and 900 pages later, with the Events of November 17, this is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: a lover, a fighter, a scholar, and a truly spectacular talker. Ejected from three Jewish day schools for acts of violence and messianic tendencies, Gurion ends up in the Cage, a special lockdown program for the most hopeless cases of Aptakisic Junior High. Separated from his scholarly followers, Gurion becomes a leader of a very different sort, with righteous aims building to a revolution of troubling intensity. \u003cem\u003eThe Instructions\u003c\/em\u003e is an absolutely singular work of fiction by an important new talent. Adam Levin has shaped a world driven equally by moral fervor and slapstick comedy-a novel that is muscular and verbose, troubling and empathetic, monumental, breakneck, romantic, and unforgettable. Thirteen years after its original publication, McSweeney's is releasing this special, two paperback edition of Levin's beloved novel which continues to find new readers each year. \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdam Levin is the author of the novels\u003cem\u003e The Instructions\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Bubblegum\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the story collection, \u003cem\u003e Hot Pink\u003c\/em\u003e. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e McSweeney's\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/em\u003e. He has been a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award winner, a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a National Jewish Book Award finalist. A long-time Chicagoan, he currently lives in Gainesville, Florida. His latest novel is \u003cem\u003eMount Chicago\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"McSweeney's","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52000296599826,"sku":"9781952119736","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_35d9f951-d7c4-4519-8947-017e92e81bcb.jpg?v=1770193526","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-instructions-13th-anniversary-bar-mitzvah-edition-9781952119736","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}