{"product_id":"extinction-copy","title":"The Loser","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMid-century Austria.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThree aspiring concert pianists - Wertheimer, Glenn Gould, and the narrator - have dedicated their lives to achieving the status of a virtuoso. But one day, two of them overhear Gould playing Bach's Goldberg Variations, and his incomparable genius instantly destroys them both. They are forced to abandon their musical ambitions: Wertheimer, over a tortured process of disintegration that sees him becoming obsessed with both writing and his own sister, with whom he has a quasi-incestuous relationship culminating in death; and the narrator, instantly, retreating into obscurity to write a book that he periodically destroys and restarts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten as a monologue in one remarkable unbroken paragraph, Thomas Bernhard's dazzling meditation on failure, genius, and fame is a radical new reading experience: musical, paralysing, raging, and inimitable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished:  UK, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780571349975\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thomas Bernhard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57380687446347,"sku":null,"price":14.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/9780571349975.jpg?v=1779212100","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/extinction-copy","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}