{"product_id":"nothing-book-janne-teller-9781416985792","title":"Nothing","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis modern-day \u003ci\u003eLord of the Flies\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting existential novel, both award-winning and and provocative. Now in paperback as part of the Atheneum Collection \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNothing matters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the moment you are born, you start to die. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Earth is 4.6 billion years old. You'll live to be a maximum of one hundred. Life isn't worth the bother  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo says Pierre Anthon when he decides there is no meaning to life, leaves his seventh-grade classroom, climbs a plum tree, and stays there. His friends and classmates cannot get him to come down, not even by pelting him with rocks. So to prove to him that there is a meaning to life, they set out to give up things of importance, challenging one another to make increasingly serious sacrifices. The pile is started with a lifetime's collection of Dungeons \u0026amp; Dragons books, a fishing rod, a pair of green sandals, a pet hamster--but then, as each demand becomes more extreme, events take a morbid twist. And what if, after all these sacrifices, the pile is still not meaningful enough to bring Pierre Anthon down?","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49598434902289,"sku":"GOR008625858","price":14.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50381308526865,"sku":"CIN1416985794G","price":4.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51333499126033,"sku":"CIN1416985794VG","price":5.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52782679785745,"sku":"CIN1416985794A","price":4.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1416985794.jpg?v=1751177153","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/nothing-book-janne-teller-9781416985792","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}