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He was going to lose the house and everything in it.The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he wouldlose his family. He stood inside the house and took stock.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Joshua Ferris
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 313
- Publisher
- Penguin Group(CA), Luchterhand Literaturvlg., Little Brown & Company
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780141943961
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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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