{"product_id":"black-bag-by-luke-kennard-hardcover","title":"Black Bag by Luke Kennard - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The funniest and smartest novel I've read in a while.” —Zadie Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime—sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag—to aid a professor’s psychological experiment. What could possibly go wrong?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Luke Kennard’s audacious new novel, a penniless actor picks up a job working for Dr. Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. Dr. Blend wants to know: how will his students react to someone zipped into an oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of Fall lectures?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe role, eagerly accepted, soon yields unexpected consequences, from a professor of post-humanism developing research questions of her own—in particular, can you love someone secreted away inside a black bag?—to the actor’s childhood friend forming a vision for monetizing this unique new situation. In the end, only Black Bag will be able to say what it all means . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity, and an off-kilter love story, Black Bag is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A comedic masterpiece. Part SNL sketch, part Spike Jonze film.” —Ben Purkert, author of The Men Can’t Be Saved\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67112979824755,"sku":"9781638933380","price":1470.0,"currency_code":"PHP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0693\/1041\/4963\/files\/9781638933380-02.jpg?v=1793860415","url":"https:\/\/nationalbookstore.com\/products\/black-bag-by-luke-kennard-hardcover","provider":"National Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}