{"product_id":"random-by-penn-jillette-9781636140711","title":"Random","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Penn Jillette is an atheist, triple-goddamned lunatic, and his book is a glorious Las Vegas lunatic paean to chance and adventure—a page-turning, scabrous, hilarious ride into randomness.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-Neil Gaiman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jillette's latest novel, \u003cem\u003eRandom\u003c\/em\u003e, is about a young man who inherits his father's crushing debt to a loan shark and turns to dice—and other dangerous measures—to dig himself out. That the dice bring him luck sends him a new philosophy of leaving decisions both big and small up to chance.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo weeks before his twenty-first birthday, Las Vegas native Bobby Ingersoll finds out he's inherited a crushing gambling debt from his scumbag father. The debt is owed to an even scummier bag named Fraser Ruphart who oversees his bottom-rung criminal empire from the classy-adjacent Trump International Hotel. Bobby's prospects of paying off the note, which comes due the day he turns twenty-one, are about as dim as the sign on the hotel's facade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe two weeks pass in the blink of a (snake) eye, but before Bobby's luck runs out, he stumbles upon enough cash to pay off Ruphart and change his family's fortune. More importantly, he finds himself with a new, for lack of a better word, faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBobby does not consign his big break to a \"higher power\"—what Penn Jillette hero ever could? Instead, he devises and devotes himself to Random, a philosophy where his life choices are based entirely on the roll of his \"lucky\" dice. What follows is a rollicking exploration into not so much what defines us as what \u003cem\u003edivines\u003c\/em\u003e us when we give over every decision—from what to eat to whom to marry to how or when to die—to the random fall of two numbered cubes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRandom\u003c\/em\u003e combines the intellectual curiosity of Richard Dawkins with the humour and grit of an Elmore Leonard antihero. Jillette's up-on-his-luck Ingersoll is the character we need to help us navigate the chaos of the post-truth era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWell, unless his roll runs cold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853291835628,"sku":"9781636140711","price":52.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14568813482770.jpg?v=1759195397","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/random-by-penn-jillette-9781636140711","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}