{"product_id":"just-a-couple-of-days-isbn-9780156031226","title":"Just A Couple Of Days","description":"Blip Korterly kicks off a game of graffiti tag on a local overpass by painting a simple phrase: \"Uh-oh.\" An anonymous interlocutor writes back: \"When?\" Blip slyly answers: \"Just a couple of days.\" But what happens in just a couple of days? Blip is arrested; his friend, Dr. Flake Fountain—a molecular biologist—is drafted into a shadow-government research project conducting experiments on humans. The virus being tested—cleverly called \"the Pied Piper\"—renders its victims incapable of symbolic capacity; that is, incapable of communication. Is this biological weaponry? What would happen if it were let loose on the world? Does a babbling populace pose a threat or provide an opportunity for social evolution? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis novel’s absurd, larger-than-life characters speak in exuberant prose that is as satirical as it is playful, as full of implications as it is full of mirth. It’s no wonder Just a Couple of Days has become an underground cult classic. This grassroots phenomenon will reach even more soon-to-be fans in its newly updated Harvest edition-- complete with an excerpt from the author's next book!  | \u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS  \u003cem\u003e\"Just a Couple of Days\u003c\/em\u003e may be the most unusual, the most original novel I have ever read. It reminds me of my own first novel, \u003cem\u003eAnother Roadside Attraction,\u003c\/em\u003e in that it almost completely defies what we've been taught that a novel ought to be... If philosophical ideas were harpoons, Tony Vigorito could turn every whale in Ahab's ocean into floating pincushions...\" —Tom Robbins  \"A lyrical, thoughtful, viral meme of a book. Read it!\"—CHRISTOPHER MOORE, author of LAMB and A DIRTY JOB  \"This is the kind of literary enjoyment so many people say you shouldn’t have, and then worry about when you start to draw larger conclusions from . . . I’d go so far as to say that this novel is ‘folk heroic’ and should be read by anyone who still values their capacity to think for themselves.\"—KRIS SAKNUSSEMM, author of ZANESVILLE\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889874628837,"sku":"NP9780156031226","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780156031226.jpg?v=1730232089","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/just-a-couple-of-days-isbn-9780156031226","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}