{"product_id":"the-whole-of-life-9781564789075","title":"The Whole of Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eI can assure you that no movie will ever achieve the speed of prose. Human beings just haven't realized that yet.--J?rg Laederach. With tongue resolutely in cheek, saxophonist, critic, poet, and one-time enfant terrible of Swiss literature J?rg Laederach here pursues the ambition of forcing all of human existence into a single novel. The Whole of Life tells the story of a man, Robert Bob Hecht, in three sections: Job, about work and looking for work; Wife, about sex during a bout of impotence; and Totems and Taboos, in which Bob himself ruminates on the limitlessness of human limitation. In Life, space is compressed to the suffocating dimensions of a single mind, while single moments are expanded cubistically into entire landscapes. Bodies are vivisected and reassembled, and language is invaded, exploded, and reassembled. The Whole of Life sees Laederach composing a novel by taking it apart as he goes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781564789075\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jurg Laederach","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42362366722229,"sku":"9781564789075","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bf5ba876-7686-4e1f-8ded-96b906f0dcc7.jpg?v=1662434624","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-whole-of-life-9781564789075","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}