{"product_id":"kleinzeit-by-russell-hoban","title":"'Kleinzeit' by Russell Hoban","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"31\" data-end=\"476\"\u003eAfter losing his job and receiving an alarming diagnosis involving his hypotenuse, Kleinzeit enters a hospital where illness, language and the London Underground begin behaving like conscious beings.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"31\" data-end=\"476\"\u003eHe falls for Sister, writes on mysteriously insistent yellow paper, and drifts through a world in which objects speak, abstractions develop motives, and the boundary between bodily crisis and metaphysical revelation becomes increasingly useless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"478\" data-end=\"955\"\u003eFirst published in 1974, Hoban’s second adult novel is comic, compressed and gloriously unstable. Its short, rhythmic chapters make the strangeness feel less like decorative surrealism than a new operating system for consciousness. For readers of Beckett, Vonnegut, early Pynchon or novels that allow language itself to become a character. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"957\" data-end=\"1073\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePicador, 1976. Paperback with rubbing, creasing and edgewear; pages age-toned, binding sound.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45870078066771,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-07-27T201013.771.png?v=1785147053","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/kleinzeit-by-russell-hoban","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}