{"product_id":"gamelife-paperback","title":"Gamelife - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael W. Clune\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e In telling the story of his youth through seven computer games, critically acclaimed author Michael W. Clune (\u003ci\u003eWhite Out\u003c\/i\u003e) captures the part of childhood we live alone. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e You have been awakened.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFloppy disk inserted, computer turned on, a whirring, and then this sentence, followed by a blinking cursor. So begins \u003ci\u003eSuspended\u003c\/i\u003e, the first computer game to obsess seven-year-old Michael, to worm into his head and change his sense of reality. Thirty years later he will write: \"Computer games have taught me the things you can't learn from people.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGamelife \u003c\/i\u003eis the memoir of a childhood transformed by technology. Afternoons spent gazing at pixelated maps and mazes train Michael's eyes for the uncanny side of 1980s suburban Illinois. A game about pirates yields clues to the drama of cafeteria politics and locker-room hazing. And in the year of his parents' divorce, a spaceflight simulator opens a hole in reality.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael W. Clune\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eWhite Out: The Secret Life of Heroin\u003c\/i\u003e and of two scholarly books, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature in the Free Market \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWriting Against Time\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 13, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42694819479615,"sku":"9780374536381","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e28f658d31bc61ed61dbc95e11dffddd.webp?v=1765002159","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/gamelife-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}