{"product_id":"9781948830805","title":"Red Handler","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA riotous metafictional dissection of a \"famous\" Norwegian detective writer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrode Brandeggen (1970–2014), an unknown voice to most readers, made his debut in 1992\nwith the experimental 2,000+ page novel \u003ci\u003eConglomerate Breath\u003c\/i\u003e. It was never reviewed and soon\nforgotten. After that, he created a new genre, writing fifteen micro-novels about \"Red Handler,\" a\nprotest-oriented crime fiction project aimed at confronting the genre’s weakness—and often\nunnecessary length. \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs his weapon, he developed a private investigator who is already at the\nscene or in the immediate vicinity when foul play takes place, so that the perp can be caught red\nhanded and the case quickly solved, thus offering crime fiction to people who don’t have the\ntime to read long books, or who simply hate to read, but love crime. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book brings together all fifteen micro-novels Brandeggen wrote about Red\nHandler for the first time, and is also equipped with a comprehensive amount of enthusiastic, explanatory,\ncomplementary, and sometimes strangely digressive endnotes, written in the pen of Brandeggen’s\nclosest literary confidant in the final years, German professional annotator Bruno Aigner (1934–). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis novel about the fiction Red Handler, Frode Brandeggen, and Bruno Aigner is Johan Harstad’s wildest, most hysterical project to date.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johan Harstad","offers":[{"title":"Open Letter Books |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-12-15","offer_id":44230072729855,"sku":"9781948830805","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_2f35b16a-d4ab-4aad-97c4-8d18b9b4a08e.jpg?v=1692999909","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781948830805","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}