{"title":"Nathaniel Stein","description":"NATHANIEL STEIN has written humor and nonfiction for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Daily Beast, among other publications. He lives in Los Angeles where he works as a television writer. This is his first novel.","products":[{"product_id":"the-threat-paperback","title":"The Threat - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eDripping with voice, \u003ci\u003eThe Threat\u003c\/i\u003e is a hilariously relatable story of self-doubt, aging, and frustration. Literary yet accessible, Stein's story explores what happens when the only way you can live is by feeling like you might die.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Mr. Melvin Levin, I'm going to kill you.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE THREAT \u003c\/i\u003etells the darkly comic story of Melvin Levin, a middle-aged man who is dissatisfied with his dull and mediocre life. That is, until he receives a mysterious death threat in the mail. Terrified at first, Levin soon becomes accustomed to the threat--and then, increasingly, delighted with it, thrilled with his newfound importance as a \"threatened man.\" But as his obsession with maintaining this identity becomes all-consuming, he risks blinding himself to the twin dangers of the threat itself and--perhaps worse--of his own deranged mind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once absurdist, moving, and savagely funny, \u003ci\u003eTHE THREAT\u003c\/i\u003e is a timeless parable of the comic lengths to which people go to protect the delusions that validate them.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for \u003c\/i\u003eThe Threat\u003cbr\u003e\"A comic masterpiece.\" \u003cb\u003e--Andy Borowitz, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eProfiles in Ignorance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I savored every word of Nathaniel Stein's hilarious, expertly crafted, giddily uncompromising debut novel.\" \u003cb\u003e--Simon Rich, Thurber Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eNew Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Nathaniel Stein has written a comic novel unlike anything that we have on hand recently: a small-scale exquisitist portrait of an improbable existence that has elements of both Kafka and Bruce Jay Friedman, and manages to be both appealingly absurd and strangely touching. A genuinely original book.\" \u003cb\u003e--Adam Gopnik, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times-\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eParis to the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATHANIEL STEIN\u003c\/b\u003e has written humor and nonfiction for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast, \u003c\/i\u003e among other publications. He lives in Los Angeles where he works as a television writer. This is his first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104778129631,"sku":"9781684429707","price":19.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/wET8Y5zZXi9781684429707.webp?v=1781111299"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/nathaniel-stein.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}