{"product_id":"we-live-here-now-9781685892012","title":"We Live Here Now","description":"\u003cb\u003eDeLillo meets Kafka in a wickedly smart novel that explores the boundaries between art and life, vision and reality, beauty and commerce . . .\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen visitors to a famous conceptual artist's installation start mysteriously disappearing, the aftershocks radiate outwards through twelve people who were involved in the project, changing all of their lives, and launching them on a crazy-quilt trajectory that will end with them all together at one final, apocalyptic bacchanal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMixing illusion and reality, simulacra and replicants, sound artists and death artists, performers and filmmakers and theorists and journalists, \u003ci\u003eWe Live Here Now\u003c\/i\u003e ranges across the world of weapons dealers and international shipping to the galleries and studios on the cutting edge of hyper-contemporary art. It spins a dazzling web that conveys, with eerie precision, the sheer strangeness of what it is like to be alive today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eC. D. Rose is the author of four previous books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Blind Accordionist\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin Stares at the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e. His short stories have appeared in\u003ci\u003e Gorse, 3AM, The Quietus\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBest British Short Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e He currently lives in the north of England.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51552905756946,"sku":"9781685892012","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c0dcd612-6674-4cf5-bdaf-21a2ff3db721.jpg?v=1754911672","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/we-live-here-now-9781685892012","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}