{"product_id":"teleportation-accident-book-ned-beauman-9781620400227","title":"The Teleportation Accident","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLong-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, \u003ci\u003eThe Teleportation Accident\u003c\/i\u003e is a hilarious sci-fi noir about sex, Satan, and teleportation devices.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could ever happen.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e If you're living in Germany in the 1930s, it probably isn't.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But that's no consolation to Egon Loeser, whose carnal misfortunes will push him from the experimental theaters of Berlin to the absinthe bars of Paris to the physics laboratories of Los Angeles, trying all the while to solve two mysteries: Was it really a deal with Satan that claimed the life of his hero, Renaissance set designer Adriano Lavicini, creator of the so-called Teleportation Device? And why is it that a handsome, clever, modest guy like him can't--just once in a while--get himself laid?\u003cbr\u003e Ned Bauman has crafted a stunningly inventive, exceptionally funny, dangerously unsteady and (largely) coherent novel about sex, violence, space, time, and how the best way to deal with history is to ignore it.\u003c\/p\u003e history is to ignore it.history is to ignore it.history is to ignore it.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49589597143313,"sku":"GOR012771801","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50387256672529,"sku":"CIN1620400227G","price":4.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53024976437521,"sku":"CIN1620400227VG","price":7.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1620400227.jpg?v=1751119626","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/teleportation-accident-book-ned-beauman-9781620400227","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}