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Black bag

"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 and out-of-work actor picks up a job workin...

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Main Author: Kennard, Luke (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Zando, 2026.
Edition:First edition.
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Actors > Fiction.
College teachers > Fiction.
Masculinity > Fiction.
Psychology > Experiments > Fiction.
England > Fiction.
Actors > England.
College teachers.
Actors.
Masculinity.
Psychology > Experiments.
Identity (Psychology)
Campus fiction.
Satirical fiction.
Picaresque fiction.
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Summary:"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 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 an oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of Fall 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?--and the actor's childhood friend forms a vision for monetizing this new situation... 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"--
Physical Description:340 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781638933380
1638933383
Author Notes:Luke Kennard is an award-winning poet and novelist. His poetry collection, Cain , was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and described by Alan Hollinghurst as "the cleverest and funniest thing I've read this year," and Notes on the Sonnets won the Forward prize for Best Poetry Collection in 2021. The Transition , his first novel, was BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. His most recent poetry collection, The Book of Jonah , was published by Picador in 2025 and Black Bag , his third novel, was published by John Murray and Zando in 2026 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He is a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Birmingham.

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