{"product_id":"book-cjy6","title":"Patient X","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eOccupied City,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTokyo Year Zero, \u003c\/i\u003eand The Red Riding Quartet now gives us a stunning work of fiction in twelve connected tales that take up the strange, brief life of the brilliant twentieth-century Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaunting and evocative, brutal and surreal, these twelve connected tales evoke the life of the Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), whose short story \"In the Grove\" served as an inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's famous film \u003ci\u003eRashōmon\u003c\/i\u003e, and whose narrative use of multiple perspectives and different versions of a single event influenced generations of storytellers. Writing out of his own obsession with Akutagawa, David Peace delves into the known facts and events of the writer's life and inner world-birth to a mother who was mentally ill and a father who died shortly thereafter; his own battles with mental illness; his complicated reaction to the beginnings of modernization and Westernization of Japan; his short but prolific writing career; his suicide at the age of thirty-five-and creates a stunningly atmospheric and deeply moving fiction that tells its own story of a singularly brilliant mind.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49330198151472,"sku":"BDcjy6","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/cjy6-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776318959","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cjy6","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}