{"product_id":"black-bag-luke-kennard","title":"Black Bag (Luke Kennard)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The funniest and smartest novel I've read in a while' ZADIE SMITH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eBlack Bag\u003c\/i\u003e made me laugh aloud dozens and dozens of times . . . I loved its inventive originality and its ambition: it is very powerfully worth your time' KATHERINE RUNDELL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It is excellent, both funny and genuinely clever . . . go on, treat yourself' MARK HADDON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Ya gotta read \u003ci\u003eBlack Bag\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eFERN BRADY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A campus novel for our end times . . . \u003ci\u003eBlack Bag\u003c\/i\u003e fizzes with wit and invention' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A triumph of deadpan comedy . . . As surreal and ambitious as Tom McCarthy's \u003ci\u003eRemainder\u003c\/i\u003e, only written by someone with the comic instincts of \u003ci\u003ePeep Show\u003c\/i\u003e's Jesse Armstrong' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Hilarious and poignant . . . Luke's prose ripples with unusual images and wry aphorisms. An ode to the importance of friendship, tenderness and love' \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'With all the fuss about the manosphere, \u003ci\u003eBlack Bag \u003c\/i\u003ecomes as comic relief . . . profound as well as funny' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eStandard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Had me laughing from page one' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Very, very funny' GQ\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Winningly wry, both vulnerable and dyspeptic'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr Blend's students react to someone zipped into on oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of autumn term lectures? The role, eagerly accepted, soon has unexpected consequences. A professor of post-humanism develops research questions of her own, in particular can you love someone secreted away inside a black bag? Meanwhile, the actor's childhood friend and flatmate forms a vision for monetising this new situation . . . \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity and an off-kilter love story, \u003ci\u003eBlack Bag\u003c\/i\u003e is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A masterpiece from one of the best writers at work today . . . Wildly original and funny, yet always underpinned by depth of feeling, this is a novel like no other' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOE DUNTHORNE, author of\u003ci\u003e Submarine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This brilliant novel made me laugh, think, worry about a man on a swan pedalo and almost shed a tear into the dark leather of my own consciousness' WILL ASHON, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Passengers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Absurdly good. \u003ci\u003ePeep Show\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eFight Club\u003c\/i\u003e. The novel of male interiority we've all been waiting for' CLARE POLLARD, author of \u003ci\u003eDelphi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuke Kennard is an award-winning poet and novelist. His literary criticism has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry London\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e. He lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2014 he was named one of the 'Next Generation Poets' by the Poetry Book Society in their once-per-decade list.  \u003ci\u003eCain\u003c\/i\u003e, was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and described by Alan Hollinghurst as 'the cleverest and funniest thing I've read this year'. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes on the Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e, an anarchic response to Shakespeare's sonnets, won the Forward prize for Best Poetry Collection in 2021. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Transition,\u003c\/i\u003e was BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. His most recent novel is \u003ci\u003eThe Answer to Everything\u003c\/i\u003e. His forthcoming poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Jonah\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published by Picador in 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Print PDF, Englisch, 400 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66479521857885,"sku":"K011066422","price":19.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/1106642200001A.jpg?v=1794731901","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/black-bag-luke-kennard","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}