{"product_id":"madstone-paperback","title":"MadStone - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eK. Hank Jost\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe water is rising... Toilets overflow, and wages are low. Jobs are lost, and time is money. Time is money, and so is your body. Addictions relapse, and friendships falter. Meaning evades your grasp, and God is dead. God is dead, and so is your father... Your mind refuses you its secrets, and the immutable other, too often, tells the truth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eK Hank Jost's charybdic anti-epic, \u003cstrong\u003eMadStone, \u003c\/strong\u003e glitters with the strewn gore of every eviscerated day, the innards and excretions of both body and mind, unwinding a nauseous fugue of hungover prophecy, macerated identity, and the collapse of all distance between selves.\u003cbr\u003eFar from pornographizing misery, \u003cstrong\u003eMadStone \u003c\/strong\u003enullifies it. Here, catastrophe is synonymous with the mundane. With a near-biblical swagger and inscrutability, \u003cstrong\u003eMadStone\u003c\/strong\u003e unravels the ruination of six lives in a contrapuntal plea against self-obsession, incuriosity, and the spectacle of disaster. As equally erudite as it is vehemently anti-academic, \u003cstrong\u003eMadStone\u003c\/strong\u003e poses, once again, the unanswerable question of modernity: \u003cem\u003eHow, after all of this, are we meant to go on living?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 302\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 02, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42096237707399,"sku":"9781952600388","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/8d539845c8d04fa547363c4dd5b3f13f.webp?v=1732339311","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/madstone-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}