{"product_id":"your-name-here-by-helen-dewitt-9781628976267","title":"Your Name Here","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major literary event over two decades in the making,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYour Name Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003emarks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Samurai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book of unparalleled scope and vision, \u003ci\u003eYour Name Here\u003c\/i\u003e is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America's 'War on Terror', countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA metafictional Pygmalion story reminiscent of Charlie Kaufman's Oscar-nominated \u003ci\u003eAdaptation\u003c\/i\u003e, or Italo Calvino's \u003ci\u003eIf on a winter's night a traveler\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eYour Name Here\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare work of art that captures the process of becoming itself. A reminder that a masterpiece and a doomed voyage look the same at the start.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A work of genius...What began as a playful collaboration became, like most of DeWitt's work, weirder, riskier and more ambitious. After at least 20 drafts and countless revisions, it morphed into a 600-page work that resists categorisation and almost defies description.' \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An audacious metafiction...Readers will be left breathless.' \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eStarred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An ouroboros  and a big one at that  of a postmodern yarn that threatens to swallow itself at any moment...At once bewildering and beguiling, and a groaning-table feast of words.' \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'DeWitt is a brilliant risk-taker. I truly have no idea what to expect.' \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, '10 Things We're Excited About This Fall'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Refreshing[ly] bold...The structure produces opportunities for tension and momentum, winding around a convergence in which everything feels as if it is just around the corner.' \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is hit-and-run, take-no-prisoners writing.' \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Although the book may appear, to begin with, to be plotless, it turns out to be tightly organised: a Godard-like enfilade of shaftings, a frontispiece-of-Leviathan-type portrait of the world as a great 'Biz' made up of millions of little bizzes...\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYour Name Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eis a novel that doesn't really believe in novels. The writing is delightfully shameless, dishevelled and dissolute; globalised and pornified and digitised somehow, bit after bit after bit.' \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe London Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Peerless.'  Lauren Oyler, author of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFake Accounts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff's\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYour Name Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehas been the novel of the century for almost two decades, despite almost no one having read it. Now, at long last,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYour Name Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eis here. Not a rumor, not an excerpt, not a PDF: this is the real thing  a hilarious, insatiably imaginative meta-meta-meta-novel that takes every risk and plays every card and captures, maybe like no other novel, the internet's jarring dislocations and formal possibilities. Still wildly ahead of its time,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYour Name Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003econtains a multitude of voices so funny, so dark, so alive to every contingency that I wish it were twice as long. What a blast!'  Mark Krotov, coeditor of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Intellectual Situation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47289324339436,"sku":"9781628976267","price":61.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/39076325e7c39e68172bfd234fc2a7ae.jpg?v=1770600612","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/your-name-here-by-helen-dewitt-9781628976267","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}