{"product_id":"fight-song-isbn-9781593765088","title":"Fight Song","description":"\u003cb\u003e“A Generation X call-to-arms about facing mid-life on our own terms with the unique heart that beats inside us all . . . Poignant, honest, and funny as hell.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen his bicycle is intentionally run off the road by a neighbor’s SUV, something snaps in Bob Coffin. Modern suburban life has been getting him down and this is the last straw. To avoid following in his own father’s missteps, Bob is suddenly desperate to reconnect with his wife and his distant, distracted children. And he’s looking for any guidance he can get.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBob soon learns that the wisest words come from the most unexpected places, from characters that are always more than what they appear to be: a magician\/marriage counselor, a fast-food drive-thru attendant\/phone-sex operator, and a janitor\/guitarist of a French KISS cover band. Can these disparate voices inspire Bob to fight for his family? To fight for his place in the world?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA call-to-arms for those who have ever felt beaten down by life, \u003ci\u003eFight Song\u003c\/i\u003e is a quest for happiness in a world in which we are increasingly losing control. It is an exciting novel by one of the most surprising and original writers of his generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A whimsical, madcap, delightfully depraved fable for our age.” —Jonathan Evison, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For its irreverent beat, relentless energy, and sharp, funny characters, \u003ci\u003eFight Song\u003c\/i\u003e may as well be titled 'Battle Cry.'\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mohr . . . brings a dollop of David Sedaris–like humor to the pathos . . . It’s a surprisingly sweet, rollicking tribute to anyone who’s ever needed a fight song to fight back.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“…a Generation X call-to-arms about facing mid-life on our own terms with the unique heart that beats inside us all…Poignant, honest, and funny as hell. As diverse and unpredictable as Generation X itself, \u003ci\u003eFight Song\u003c\/i\u003e captures the symbolism in the world we face while giving us permission to laugh at ourselves and the choices we've made in the process.” —\u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“For its irreverent beat, relentless energy, and sharp, funny characters, \u003ci\u003eFight Song\u003c\/i\u003e may as well be titled \u003ci\u003eBattle Cry\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It’s hard to believe a suburban father’s desperate quest to turn his life around could be so much fun, but that’s exactly how readers are likely to react to \u003ci\u003eFight Song\u003c\/i\u003e... a brisk, contemporary \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e with Cyclops and the sirens replaced by a cast of characters including a crying magician, who doubles as a marriage counselor and a bodybuilding fast-food worker who moonlights as a phone-sex operator. Mohr…brings a dollop of David Sedaris–like humor to the pathos. While irreverent, he gets to the heart of real emotion with bracing frankness…It’s a surprisingly sweet, rollicking tribute to anyone who’s ever needed a fight song to fight back.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An unusual take on a mid-life crisis narrative, Mohr's novel… offers unexpected—often brilliant—confrontations of modern clichés…Mohr's elegant writing and colorful milieu is refreshing, an interesting mix of Charles Bukowski and Tom Robbins, with a cinematic heaping of the Coen brothers for good measure.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mohr has a clever imagination, and this book... hinges on some universal issues, namely Bob’s struggles to rekindle his romance, recapture his creativity, and regain control of his life. To the book’s credit, Mohr never loses the story’s emotional heart.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With his fourth novel, Joshua Mohr pushes himself into bold new territory and doesn't skip a beat. \u003ci\u003eFight Song\u003c\/i\u003e is a whimsical, madcap, delightfully depraved fable for our age.\" —Jonathan Evison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bob Coffen of Joshua Mohr's \u003ci\u003eFight Song\u003c\/i\u003e is among the most vivid characters I've encountered in recent fiction. He's a man so alive on the page, funny, self-depreciating, confused. We can all relate. As much love song as fight song, I found myself rooting for Coffen on every page of this surprising and poignant book.” —Peter Orner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A wry, intelligent, and sublimely funny novel, \u003ci\u003eFight Song\u003c\/i\u003e answers Big Questions while keeping the reader entirely absorbed and thoroughly entertained.” —Patrick deWitt, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sisters Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Think \u003ci\u003eThis is 40\u003c\/i\u003e set in Silicon Valley, filtered through \u003ci\u003eLittle Miss Sunshine\u003c\/i\u003e with echoes of \u003ci\u003eWall-E\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e – but uplifting!” —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Mohr\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eTermite Parade\u003c\/i\u003e (a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editor’s Choice selection), \u003ci\u003eSome Things that Meant the World to Me\u003c\/i\u003e (one of \u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's Top 10 reads of 2009 and a \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller), \u003ci\u003eDamascus\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFight Song\u003c\/i\u003e, all published to much critical acclaim. Mohr teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco.","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301057777893,"sku":"NP9781593765088","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781593765088.jpg?v=1767726852","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/fight-song-isbn-9781593765088","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}