{"product_id":"lost-in-the-funhouse","title":"Lost in the Funhouse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom its opening story, \"Frame-Tale\"--printed sideways and designed to be cut out by the reader and twisted into a never-ending Mobius strip--to the much-anthologized \"Life-Story,\" whose details are left to the reader to \"fill in the blank,\" Barth's acclaimed collection challenges our ideas of what fiction can do. Highlights include the Homerian story-wthin-a-story-within-a-story (times seven) of \"Menalaiad,' and \"Night-Sea Journey,\" a first-person account of a confused human sperm on its way to fertilize an egg. All of the characters in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLost in the Funhouse\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eare searching, in one way or another, for their purpose and the meaning of their existence. Together, their stories form a kaleidescope of exuberant metafictional inventiveness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Barth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47957616492738,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/8002\/4002\/files\/81jNRzAeMWL._SY522.jpg?v=1782402070","url":"https:\/\/frictionbooks.com\/products\/lost-in-the-funhouse","provider":"Friction Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}