{"product_id":"of-this-world-9798985820782","title":"Of This World","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn these seventeen stories, author Benjamin Kessler explores both the familiar and alien of the everyday. This debut collection asks not only what it means to change, but how to navigate life after emerging on the other side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing an alien abduction, a botched bank robbery, and a man compelled to eat nothing but batteries, each story seeks to make sense of what it means to be human, if such a thing is even possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Benjamin Kessler's \u003cem\u003eOf This World\u003c\/em\u003e is a terrific collection. Its stories are compact, powerful, and often deeply strange--reflecting, in precise, evocative prose, the ever-more-surreal world in which we find ourselves living. A mesmerizing journey from first story to last.\"--Christopher Coake, author of \u003cem\u003eYou Would Have Told Me Not To\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The stories in \u003cem\u003eOf This World\u003c\/em\u003e are so funny and unexpected, inhabited by strikingly different and memorable characters. Kessler has a gift for capturing fleeting, vivid moments that indelibly reveal a character's deepest fears or desires in a flash. What I love most is how these stories portray contradictory feelings in a single character or relationship--sadness and absurdity, love and loneliness--often at the same time. This is a lively, entertaining story collection that will stay with you.\" Gabriel Urza, author of All \u003cem\u003eThat Followed and The White Death: An Illusion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16053978\"\u003eBenjamin Kessler\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Game Over Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798985820782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8985820788\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC029000\"\u003eShort Stories (single author)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Game Over Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44454288097517,"sku":"8985820788","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_42f32e1d-23c7-4751-9bda-029bf3e84a6b.jpg?v=1700374669","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/of-this-world-9798985820782","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}