{"product_id":"9781638933380","title":"Black Bag","description":"\u003cb\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\/b\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, \u003ci\u003eBlack Bag\u003c\/i\u003e is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A comedic masterpiece. Part \u003ci\u003eSNL\u003c\/i\u003e sketch, part Spike Jonze film.” —Ben Purkert, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Men Can’t Be Saved\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Kennard, Luke","offers":[{"title":"Hardback \/ Adult Fiction","offer_id":68114142626016,"sku":null,"price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_6760e05e-783c-4a97-bea8-877f18f2bff4.jpg?v=1792768010","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/fr\/products\/9781638933380","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}