{"product_id":"black-bag-a-novel-by-luke-kennard","title":"Black Bag: A Novel by Luke Kennard","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"ant-tabs ant-tabs-top ant-tabs-small ant-tabs-card itemTabs\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ant-tabs-content-holder\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ant-tabs-content ant-tabs-content-top\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"ant-tabs-tabpane ant-tabs-tabpane-active\" id=\"rc-tabs-0-panel-description\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"html htmlcolor bm-lnkin-0\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The funniest and smartest novel I've read in a while.” —Zadie Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime—sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag—to aid a professor’s psychological experiment. What could possibly go wrong?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Luke Kennard’s audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr. Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. Dr. Blend wants to know: how will his students react to someone zipped into an oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of Fall lectures?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe role, eagerly accepted, soon yields unexpected consequences, from a professor of post-humanism developing research questions of her own—in particular, can you love someone secreted away inside a black bag?—to the actor’s childhood friend forming a vision for monetizing this unique new situation. In the end, only Black Bag will be able to say what it all means . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity, and an off-kilter love story,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Bag\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A genre-defying, big-swing of a novel . . . a sharply funny meditation on masculinity, academia, the modern attention economy, and the quiet desperation of everyday life.” —Andrew Boryga, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Nottawa Cottage Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44199550320727,"sku":"9781638933380","price":36.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/6488\/2007\/files\/TBMBookmanagerImage_4_d57971a0-4e1c-4bfd-aaf5-5918b092dc1b.jpg?v=1787767819","url":"https:\/\/nottawacottagebookstore.ca\/products\/black-bag-a-novel-by-luke-kennard","provider":"Nottawa Cottage Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}