{"product_id":"9781638933380","title":"Black Bag","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Tremendously deft . . . it had me laughing, unnerved, and hopeful as it galloped through a true and strange world.” —Emily Nemens, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cactus League\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime—sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag—to aid a professor’s psychological experiment. What could possibly go wrong?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Luke Kennard’s audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr. Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr. Blend’s students react to someone zipped into an oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of Fall lectures? The role, eagerly accepted, soon has unexpected consequences. A professor of post-humanism develops research questions of her own—in particular, can you love someone secreted away inside a black bag?—and the actor’s childhood friend forms a vision for monetizing this new situation . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity, and an off-kilter love story, \u003ci\u003eBlack Bag\u003c\/i\u003e is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A genre-defying, big-swing of a novel . . . a sharply funny meditation on masculinity, academia, the modern attention economy, and the quiet desperation of everyday life.” —Andrew Boryga, author of \u003ci\u003eVictim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Luke Kennard","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":47793975820500,"sku":"9781638933380","price":36.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_669da5c6-d049-4a86-9b6f-fe8f59d73081.jpg?v=1776177239","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781638933380","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}