{"product_id":"2026200016400-secondhand-is-there-a-life-after-birth","title":"Is There A Life After Birth?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a title as audaciously irreverent as the man himself, Is There a Life After Birth? presents Alexander King at his most wickedly observant — a raconteur, illustrator, and self-described misanthrope who chronicles his own extraordinary existence with the sardonic wit of a man who has truly seen it all. King — bohemian artist, magazine editor, notorious television personality, and one-time opium addict — presents his life not as a conventional memoir but as a brilliantly digressive series of reflections on the absurdities of modern civilization, human folly, and the bittersweet comedy of simply being alive.\n\nKing's prose style is singular: garrulous, erudite, and laced with a dark humour that renders even the most harrowing episodes of his life strangely entertaining. A celebrated figure in mid-20th-century New York literary and artistic circles, King arguments against conformity and mediocrity with the fervour of a true iconoclast. Having first captured American audiences with his unforgettable appearances on Jack Paar's Tonight Show, he went on to channel that same electrifying storytelling energy into his books — leaving the reader to wonder, long after the final page, whether any life could ever be quite as extravagantly, improbably vivid as his own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49336819777755,"sku":"2026200016400-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/1e02e2fc-bee5-4660-a3ab-5d91bbd233fa.png?v=1789958887","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016400-secondhand-is-there-a-life-after-birth","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}