- Social media, Dentists, Identity (Psychology), Online identity theft
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel by National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris explores the absurdities of modern life and one man's search for meaning.
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Contemporary, classical in form, spare and prestige.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Joshua Ferris
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Alianza Editorial, Penguin Export, Little Brown & Company
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- Italian, English, French, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9788854508071
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Joshua Ferris's first novel, "Then We Came to the End," won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and was a National Book Award finalist. It has been translated into 24 languages. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Best New American Voices, New Stories from the South, Prairie Schooner, and The Iowa Review. He lives in New York. [Source][1] [1]: http://www.amazon.com/Joshua-Ferris/e/B001H6RSQA/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
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