{"product_id":"verificationist","title":"Verificationist","description":"\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'... utterly delicious. A very surreal book and very witty' \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'One of the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker's \u003c\/i\u003etwenty writers for the twenty-first century, Antrim unmasks the fragility of identity with prodigious wit'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e - Esquire\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\n\nTwenty psychoanalysts and a narrator meet for dinner in a pancake house. The narrator, Tom, finds himself locked in a bear hug by Bernhardt, the father figure of the group. The effects are disastrous as he is forced into an out-of-body experience and watches as his friendships and marriage unravel.\n\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'Antrim shares Vladimir Nabokov's revelry in wordplay, Thomas Pynchon's antic comedy and Donald Barthelme's sense of the surreal - he nonetheless manages to create, with each new novel, a fictional universe that's wholly, truly his own. \u003ci\u003eThe Verificationist\u003c\/i\u003e is yet another tour de force, demonstrating again what makes Antrim's voice so compelling and unique'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e - Sunday Herald\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54225971511640,"sku":"9780747552864","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780747552864.jpg?v=1764801030","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/verificationist","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}