{"product_id":"black-bag-1","title":"Black Bag","description":"\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eBlack Bag\u003c\/i\u003e made me laugh aloud dozens and dozens of times. It's brilliant, a triumph of a book . . . I loved its inventive originality and its ambition: it is very powerfully worth your time' Katherine Rundell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A campus novel for our end times . . . \u003ci\u003eBlack Bag\u003c\/i\u003e fizzes with wit and invention and winningly communicates a very human concern for meaning and connection' \u003ci\u003eObserver \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A triumph of deadpan comedy . . . As surreal and ambitious as Tom McCarthy's \u003ci\u003eRemainder\u003c\/i\u003e, only written by someone with the comic instincts of \u003ci\u003ePeep Show\u003c\/i\u003e's Jesse Armstrong . . . [Kennard is] so generous with the jokes that I found myself laughing on almost every page. A brilliant comic tour de force' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Hilarious and poignant . . . Luke's prose ripples with unusual images and wry aphorisms. The tone throughout is delightfully mordant. This is a very modern novel with a comfortingly familiar core: that of an ode to the importance of friendship, tenderness and love' \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Very, very funny' GQ\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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 on oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of autumn term 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? Meanwhile, the actor's childhood friend and flatmate forms a vision for monetising this new situation . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56250722812248,"sku":"9781399826112","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781399826112.jpg?v=1780426832","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/black-bag-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}