{"product_id":"book-brri","title":"Gamelife","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e In telling the story of his youth through seven computer games, critically acclaimed author Michael W. Clune (\u003ci\u003eWhite Out\u003c\/i\u003e) captures the part of childhood we live alone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou have been awakened.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFloppy disk inserted, computer turned on, a whirring, and then this sentence, followed by a blinking cursor. So begins \u003ci\u003eSuspended\u003c\/i\u003e, the first computer game to obsess seven-year-old Michael, to worm into his head and change his sense of reality. Thirty years later he will write: \"Computer games have taught me the things you can't learn from people.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGamelife \u003c\/i\u003eis the memoir of a childhood transformed by technology. Afternoons spent gazing at pixelated maps and mazes train Michael's eyes for the uncanny side of 1980s suburban Illinois. A game about pirates yields clues to the drama of cafeteria politics and locker-room hazing. And in the year of his parents' divorce, a spaceflight simulator opens a hole in reality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49385934782768,"sku":"BDbrri","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/99601-brri-Square.jpg?v=1735150425","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-brri","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}