{"product_id":"b0f1lhmtgz","title":"Black Bag: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The funniest and smartest novel I've read in a while' ZADIE SMITH\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e' Black Bag  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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Ya gotta read  Black Bag '   FERN BRADY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A campus novel for our end times . . .  Black Bag  fizzes with wit and invention'  Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A triumph of deadpan comedy . . . As surreal and ambitious as Tom McCarthy's  Remainder , only written by someone with the comic instincts of  Peep Show 's Jesse Armstrong'  Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Hilarious and poignant . . . Luke's prose ripples with unusual images and wry aphorisms. An ode to the importance of friendship, tenderness and love'  TLS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'With all the fuss about the manosphere,  Black Bag  comes as comic relief . . . profound as well as funny'  Standard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Had me laughing from page one'  New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Very, very funny' GQ\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Winningly wry, both vulnerable and dyspeptic'   Mail on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003eA warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity and an off-kilter love story,  Black Bag  is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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'  JOE DUNTHORNE, author of  Submarine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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  The Passengers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Absurdly good.  Peep Show  meets  Fight Club . The novel of male interiority we've all been waiting for' CLARE POLLARD, author of  Delphi\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54191393243499,"sku":"YSL20959","price":6.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/1674\/0203\/files\/71MlhV0PpCL._SY1500.jpg?v=1792722725","url":"https:\/\/www.booktavero.com\/products\/b0f1lhmtgz","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}