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Title: Black Bag
Author: Luke Kennard
ISBN: 9781638933380
Publisher: Zando
Published: 2026
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 352
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 "The funniest and smartest novel I've read in a while." --Zadie Smith An 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? In Luke Kennard's audacious new novel, a penniless 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? The 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 . . . A 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. "A comedic masterpiece. Part SNL sketch, part Spike Jonze film." --Ben Purkert, author of The Men Can't Be Saved
Author: Luke Kennard
ISBN: 9781638933380
Publisher: Zando
Published: 2026
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 352
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 "The funniest and smartest novel I've read in a while." --Zadie Smith An 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? In Luke Kennard's audacious new novel, a penniless 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? The 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 . . . A 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. "A comedic masterpiece. Part SNL sketch, part Spike Jonze film." --Ben Purkert, author of The Men Can't Be Saved
