{"product_id":"major-arcana-9781953368928","title":"Major Arcana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003ePerhaps the elusive great American novel for the twenty-first century\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt begins with a gunshot: a student's public suicide on a university campus. The blast radius of this tragic explosion expands to encompass 50 years of our history and two of the grandest characters in recent American fiction: Simon Magnus, a comic-book writer who transfigured popular culture turned gender activist who transfigures the English language, and Ash del Greco, an online occultist who by the age of 20 has seen to the end of everything and wants desperately to prove the superiority of mind over matter. With a decades-spanning but tightly-knit plot, written in an expansive style, \u003cem\u003eMajor Arcana\u003c\/em\u003e canvasses America's inner life and moral history from coast to coast and across two generations in a delirious saga about art, magic, love, and death. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally serialized on the author's Substack newsletter, \u003cem\u003eMajor Arcana\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel about the transformative power of popular culture. With a nod to Michael Chabon's \u003cem\u003eThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier \u0026amp; Clay\u003c\/em\u003e, and for fans of \u003cem\u003eTomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, \u003c\/em\u003e Pistelli reimagines the expansive novel for the 21st century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belt Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781953368928\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2025 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"John Pistelli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45131030659253,"sku":"9781953368928","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_22eb57f6-59a7-4350-bee3-0a479de61dbf.jpg?v=1740460370","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/major-arcana-9781953368928","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}