{"product_id":"the-bend-of-the-world-9781631490002","title":"The Bend of the World","description":"\"Mighty strange doings\" mark the Pittsburgh of Jacob Bacharach's audacious and hilarious debut novel, a town where \"yeti, UFOs, rumors of orgiastic rites, intimations of the Mayan apocalypse and 'psycho-temporal distortions' add that extra zing to the bustling night life\" (James Wolcott). On the edge of thirty, and comfortably adrift in life, Peter Morrison finds his personal and professional life taking a turn for the weird as his attempts to transition into adulthood are thwarted by conspiracies both real and imagined. In this madcap coming-of-age novel, where no one quite comes of age, Bacharach brings an \"immensely entertaining\" and \"Vonnegut-like sensibility\" (\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e ) to the \"aptly surreal satire\" (\u003cem\u003eDan Chaon\u003c\/em\u003e) of hipsters, corporations, and American life in the adolescent years of the twenty-first century. \"A disarming, intelligent and seriously funny debut,\" \u003cem\u003eThe Bend of the World\u003c\/em\u003e \"marks the arrival of Jacob Bacharach as a writer to watch\" (Bob Hoover, \u003cem\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/13\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781631490002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Jacob Bacharach","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43624080638133,"sku":"9781631490002","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_060c0e53-0f94-4b80-a51a-f49b8b499ba2.jpg?v=1707800066","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-bend-of-the-world-9781631490002","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}