{"product_id":"the-projectionist-9798242214828","title":"The Projectionist","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael J. Citak\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Crime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArthur Blight made a career out of making things disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce, he ghostwrote alibis for people who needed their lives rewritten-quiet edits that erased guilt, consequences, and inconvenient truths. Now he has erased himself. In a forgotten coastal town, Arthur runs a secondhand bookshop where nothing is cataloged, the questions are discouraged, and the past is supposed to stay buried.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut stories keep records.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen strange customers arrive and objects begin to behave like evidence-keys that bleed, film reels that surface on their own, projectors humming in empty rooms-Arthur realizes the lives he edited never truly vanished. They were archived. And they want to be screened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs memory, guilt, and cinema collapse into one another, Arthur is forced into a reckoning with the terrible truth at the heart of his craft: responsibility cannot be deleted-only deferred. And eventually, the operator must answer for the machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark, surreal, and formally daring, The Projectionist is a psychological noir about authorship, accountability, and the moral cost of rewriting reality. It is a haunting meditation on identity and erasure-where peace is not forgiveness, and the final edit comes at a devastating price.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of literary psychological fiction, surreal noir, and existential horror.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46860464783511,"sku":"9798242214828","price":1365.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798242214828.webp?v=1769956096","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-projectionist-9798242214828","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}