{"product_id":"black-bag-hardcover-by-luke-kennard","title":"Black Bag (Hardcover) by Luke Kennard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The funniest and smartest novel I've read in a while.” —Zadie Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity, and an off-kilter love story, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBlack Bag\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“A comedic masterpiece. Part\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSNL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esketch, part Spike Jonze film.” —Ben Purkert, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Men Can’t Be Saved\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50500388126961,"sku":null,"price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/9757\/8890\/files\/blackbag.jpg?v=1790357079","url":"https:\/\/shopsouthandpine.com\/products\/black-bag-hardcover-by-luke-kennard","provider":"South \u0026 Pine and Blue Apple Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}