{"product_id":"the-poser-a-novel-9780143107958","title":"The Poser - A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eNamed one of the Huffington Post's 2015 Books We Can't Wait To Read -\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Smart and absorbing. . . . Echoes of Steven Millhauser and Tom McCarthy. . . . Probing, witty.\" --The New York Times Book Review \"A masterful debut . . . delivered with vaudeville verve.\" --The Washington Post \"Darkly funny. . . . A deeply sensitive exploration into matters of identity and authenticity.\" --Associated Press \"The Poser is smart and grand and funny, a wonderful fable. Mr. Rubin is a great hope for comic fiction in the 21st century. He's got the spirit and the ear.\" --Sam Lipsyte A hilarious and dazzling debut novel about a master impressionist at risk of losing his true self\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll his life, Giovanni Bernini has possessed an uncanny gift: he can imitate anyone he meets. Honed by his mother at a young age, the talent catapults him from small-town obscurity to stardom. As Giovanni describes it, \"No one's disguise is perfect. There is in every person, no matter how graceful, a seam, a thread curling out of them. . . . When pulled by the right hands, it will unravel the person entire.\" As his fame grows, Giovanni encounters a beautiful and enigmatic stage singer, Lucy Starlight--the only person whose thread he cannot find--and becomes increasingly trapped inside his many poses. Ultimately, he must assume the one identity he has never been able to master: his own. In the vein of Jonathan Lethem's and Kevin Wilson's playful surrealism, Jacob Rubin's The Poser is the debut of a major literary voice, a masterfully written, deeply original comic novel, and the moving story of a man who must risk everything for the chance to save his life and know true love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Putnam Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42973771956390,"sku":"9780143107958","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/9780143107958_1_dca38173-2602-4591-ae28-38cdde489699.jpg?v=1656048978","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/the-poser-a-novel-9780143107958","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}