{"product_id":"bubblegum-paperback","title":"Bubblegum - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam Levin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest, and \u003ci\u003eBubblegum \u003c\/i\u003eis a dazzling accomplishment of wit and inventiveness.\" --George Saunders \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Levin's brains may have earned him a cult...but here he swells to a democratic reach. Give him a try sometime. His gate's wide open.\"\u003ci\u003e --\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eGarth Risk Hallberg, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe astonishing new novel by the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Instructions.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBubblegum\u003c\/i\u003e is set in an alternate present-day world in which the Internet does not exist, and has never existed. Rather, a wholly different species of interactive technology--a \"flesh-and-bone robot\" called the Curio--has dominated both the market and the cultural imagination since the late 1980s. Belt Magnet, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio, is now writing his memoir, and through it we follow a singular man out of sync with the harsh realities of a world he feels alien to, but must find a way to live in.\u003cbr\u003e At age thirty-eight, still living at home with his widowed father, Belt insulates himself from the awful and terrifying world outside by spending most of his time with books, his beloved Curio, and the voices in his head, which he isn't entirely sure are in his head. After Belt's father goes on a fishing excursion, a simple trip to the bank escalates into an epic saga that eventually forces Belt to confront the world he fears, as well as his estranged childhood friend Jonboat, the celebrity astronaut and billionaire. \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eBubblegum, \u003c\/i\u003e Adam Levin has crafted a profoundly hilarious, resonant, and monumental narrative about heartbreak, longing, art, and the search for belonging in an incompatible world. \u003ci\u003eBubblegum\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare masterwork of provocative social (and self-) awareness and intimate emotional power.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eADAM LEVIN is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Instructions\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHot Pink\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award winner, a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a National Jewish Book Award finalist. A longtime Chicagoan, Levin currently lives in Gainesville, Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 784\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 16, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699625332799,"sku":"9780525566489","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e4297fefa495ecbc000f203260d35281.webp?v=1765013940","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/bubblegum-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}