{"product_id":"cul-de-sac-paperback-1","title":"Cul-de-sac - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNick Perilli\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Oughtside has slipped in through the cracks\u003c\/b\u003e in the world and judgment has come for Habre Circle. Some boy rips himself out of sleep paralysis to find his dead-end street overtaken by the Oughtside, a limbo where the dead are remade as clay bones, shadow and porcelain. An opaque mass of a human figure meets the boy at his front door, offering him employment as judge and jury of his neighbors' banal lives. He accepts this unpaid call to adventure seemingly plucked from the video games and narratives that consume him, descending into the homes and experiences of his childhood friend, a former babysitter who is now a skeleton, a bitter elder, and more through cracked storytelling mediums. The neighbors, in turn, see the boy's true maladjusted self, interacting with him and each other in a strange limbo the way they never could in life, all of them hurtling towards salvation or damnation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCul-de-sac\u003c\/i\u003e is an experimental fantasy that playfully explores the boundaries of genre and the power of a story's medium. The book deftly weaves a narrative that guides you through the suspended places between life and death, the hunger and drive behind reconciliation, and the true cost of your past catching up with you. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Nick Perilli is a one-of-a-kind voice, and \u003ci\u003eCul-de-sac\u003c\/i\u003e is a hauntingly creepy and sneakily poignant tour of suburban limbo.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Stephanie Feldman, author of \u003ci\u003eSaturnalia\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An unsparing glimpse of a fried Levittown where teens and miscreant geezers freeze into gooey stasis. Like Finnegan's Wake or Deadwood, \u003ci\u003eCul-de-sac\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant dead-end, the Last of the Beaver-hicans, a dread well [Perilli's] fallen into so you don't have to.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Ron Dakron, author of \u003ci\u003eTricky\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A beautifully-realized portrait of adolescence in paralysis, Nick Perilli's first novel is luminous, surreal, hilariously bizarre, \u003cbr\u003eand strikingly original. From the start, we are thrust into a mind-bending adventure through suburban purgatory-a supernatural realm where one\u0026gt;s salvation or damnation rests in a teenager's hands-and the suspense never lets up from there. \u003ci\u003eCul-de-sac\u003c\/i\u003e is part absurdist coming-of-age, part phantasmogorical thriller, and it may be the most unforgettable\u003cbr\u003ebook you read this year.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Jonathan Koven, author of \u003ci\u003ePalm Lines\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBelow Torrential Hill\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"All roads lead to the Oughtside, and if you are not terrified you should be. \u003ci\u003eCul-de-sac\u003c\/i\u003e opens readers' eyes to the red, dead world that awaits us all in the next life. In the Oughtside, all life is as fragile as a cracking porcelain mask, and judgment awaits around every dark turn. Perilli's \u003ci\u003eCul-de-sac\u003c\/i\u003e is a page turner that asks the reader to reconsider everything we know about life and death. Are you ready for judgement?\"\u003cbr\u003e- Ed Bonilla, author of \u003ci\u003e5 Clones\u003c\/i\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 370\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47240717893881,"sku":"9781957010175","price":25.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/bDB5dG1Ia0ZVbEVsazgvRWg3d1dSQT09_fa2cd578-9577-4e03-9742-6fb3a697299a.webp?v=1768574467","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/cul-de-sac-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}