{"product_id":"9780008355616","title":"Antkind: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eThe bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar®-winning screenwriter of \u003cem\u003eBeing John Malkovich\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSynecdoche, New York\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e‘Riotously funny’ \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e‘Just as loopy and clever as his movies’ \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eB. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film by an enigmatic outsider – a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety years to complete. Convinced that the film will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core, that it might possibly be the greatest movie ever made, B. knows that it is his mission to show it to the rest of humanity. The only problem: the film is destroyed, leaving him the sole witness to its inadvertently ephemeral genius.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll that’s left is a single frame from which B. must somehow attempt to recall the work of art that just might be the last great hope of civilization. Thus begins a mind-boggling journey through the hilarious nightmarescape of a psyche as lushly Kafkaesque as it is atrophied by the relentless spew of Twitter. Desperate to impose order on an increasingly nonsensical existence, trapped in a self-imposed prison of aspirational victimhood and degeneratively inclusive language, B. scrambles to re-create the lost masterwork while attempting to keep pace with an ever-fracturing culture of “likes” and arbitrary denunciations that are simultaneously his \u003cem\u003ebête noire\u003c\/em\u003e and his \u003cem\u003eraison d’être\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA searing indictment of the modern world, \u003cem\u003eAntkind\u003c\/em\u003e is a richly layered meditation on art, time, memory, identity, comedy, and the very nature of existence itself – the grain of truth at the heart of every joke.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this absurdist fiction, Kaufman's satire is at its best, weaving a humorous narrative that is both a critique and a celebration of the modern world. The adventure that B. embarks on is not just a quest to recreate a lost masterpiece, but also a journey into the heart of what makes us human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Cormac Mccarthy (All the Pretty Horses), David Foster Wallace (The Pale King), Thomas Pynchon (Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me), Haruki Murakami (The City and Its Uncertain Walls), and Bret Easton Ellis (The Rules of Attraction).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charlie Kaufman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889040150677,"sku":"9780008355616","price":58.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008355616.png?v=1777422789","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008355616","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}