To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Autor Joshua Ferrisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 sep 2014
'TheCatch-22of dentistry' Stephen King
Joshua Ferris's dazzling new novelTo Rise Again at a Decent Houris about the meaning of life, the certainty of death, and the importance of good oral hygiene.
There's nothing like a dental chair to remind a man that he's alone in the world . . .
Paul O'Rourke - dentist extraordinaire, reluctant New Yorker, avowed atheist, disaffected Red Sox fan, and a connoisseur of the afternoon mochaccino - is a man out of touch with modern life. While his dental practice occupies his days, his nights are filled with darker thoughts, as he alternately marvels at and rails against the optimism of the rest of humanity.
So it goes, until someone begins to impersonate Paul online. What began as an outrageous violation of privacy soon becomes something far more soul-frightening: the possibility that the virtual 'Paul' might be a better version of the man in the flesh . . .
'Frenetic, very funny, itconfirms Ferris as a rising star of American fiction'Mail on Sunday
'Glorious. . . Avery, very funnynovel' BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review
'Dismayingly funny in the way that only really serious books can be'Guardian
Joshua Ferris was born in Illinois in 1974. He is the author ofThen We Came to the End(2007), which was nominated for the National Book Award and longlisted for theGuardianFirst Book Award, and the highly acclaimedThe Unnamed. In 2010 he was selected for theNew Yorker'sprestigious '20 under 40' list. In 2014To Rise Again At A Decent Hourwon the Dylan Thomas Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Joshua Ferris lives in New York.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141047386
ISBN-10: 0141047380
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 131 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141047380
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 131 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Joshua
Ferriswas
born
in
Illinois
in
1974.
He
is
the
author
ofThen
We
Came
to
the
End(2007),
which
was
nominated
for
the
National
Book
Award
and
longlisted
for
theGuardianFirst
Book
Award,
and
the
highly
acclaimedThe
Unnamed.
In
2010
he
was
selected
for
theNew
Yorker'sprestigious
'20
under
40'
list.
In
2014To
Rise
Again
at
a
Decent
Hourwon
the
Dylan
Thomas
Prize
and
was
shortlisted
for
the
Man
Booker
Prize.
He
lives
in
upstate
New
York.
Recenzii
A
genuinely
funny
book.Not
funny
in
the
wry-smirk
way
of
so
many
'comic'
novels.
Actually
funny
Glorious. . .A very, very funny novel.If misanthropy's going to come from anywhere it's from a lifetime's confrontation with halitosis
Funny in the way that only really serious books can be
Genuine,funny,tragicandnever dull. It'll also leave you flossing with a vengeance
Smart,sad,hilariousandeloquent. . .a writer at the top of his gameand surpassing the promise of his celebrated debut
This is one of the funniest, saddest, sweetest novels I've read sinceThen We Came to the End. When historians try to understand our strange, contradictory era, they would be wise to consultTo Rise Again at a Decent Hour.It captures what it is to be alive in early 21st-century America like nothing else I've read
Very funny[and]highly entertaining. . .Josh Ferris is a gifted satiristand very much in touch with the fear and paranoia that undercut US society
Geek-smart prose and wry humour. . .hilarious
Joshua Ferris has proved his astonishing ability to spin gold from ordinary air. . . As brave and adept as any writer out there
It's a pleasure watching this young writer confidently rangefrom the registers of broad punchline comedy to genuine spiritual depth. . . There's a happy side effect to reading the novel, as well: If you're a backslider like I was,it will guilt you into flossing again
Anengrossingandhilariously bleaknovel about a dentist being shook out of his comfortable atheism . . .This splintering of the self hasn't been performed in fiction so neatly since Philip Roth's "Operation Shylock'
Ferris [is] a Virgil of the disaffected. . . This is the novel's peculiar brilliance, to uncover its existential stakes in the most mundane tasks
Laugh-out-loud hilarious, combiningWoody Allen's New York nihilismwith an Ivy League vocabulary
Returns Ferris to the comedy of the workplace. . . his writing is so fresh and modern - acomedian's sense of timing mixed with a social critic's knack for shaking the bushes
Funny and surprisingly moving
It is completely wonderful . . . Good god he is talented
Brilliant. . .witty. . . passages of flashing comedy that sound likea stand-up theologian suffering a nervous breakdown
Joshua Ferris excels at mordantly comic novels about ordinary people in crisis . . .he writes with brio about the modern condition
Compellingbut never cheap,inventivebut never obscure . . . Ferris has secured his status asexactly the sort of mainstream literary novelist American fiction needs
A hoot. . . There'sa tincture of Pynchonian paranoiaà laThe Crying of Lot 49here, anda dash, too, of the kitchen-sink comic winsomenessthat the Dave Eggers generation brought to US literary fiction
This is fierce, pithy, unforgiving satire, taking a sledgehammer to all-American cracker-barrel homeliness. Its comic energy is fuelled by disgust and exasperation, in the tradition of Roth and Heller and John Kennedy O'Toole. But Ferris is also a dab hand at more delicate humour, every bit as contemporary . . .Ferris is very funny. . .His voice is unique
Joshua Ferris has been heralded asone of America's sharpest observers of 21st-century lifeand, reading his third novel, it's easy to see why.To Rise Again At A Decent Hourhas the immediacy and the trenchant satire of a brilliant stand-up routine as well as the big ideas and the in-depth research of a brilliant academic paper
To Rise Again at a Decent Hourisa funny novel, by turns ha-ha, peculiar and, like O'Rourke himself, suspended between heaven and earth
A riotously funny novel, whose narrator is engagingly out of step with the world around him.As engrossing as it is uproarious.
Ferris is famously good at writing about the workplace. . . and very good at portraying a man whose job is fixing teeth
TheCATCH-22of dentistry
People who can make comedy from human tragedy are rare and wonderful. It's an incredibly hard thing to do andtakes a kind of genius to deliver it on the page
Glorious. . .A very, very funny novel.If misanthropy's going to come from anywhere it's from a lifetime's confrontation with halitosis
Funny in the way that only really serious books can be
Genuine,funny,tragicandnever dull. It'll also leave you flossing with a vengeance
Smart,sad,hilariousandeloquent. . .a writer at the top of his gameand surpassing the promise of his celebrated debut
This is one of the funniest, saddest, sweetest novels I've read sinceThen We Came to the End. When historians try to understand our strange, contradictory era, they would be wise to consultTo Rise Again at a Decent Hour.It captures what it is to be alive in early 21st-century America like nothing else I've read
Very funny[and]highly entertaining. . .Josh Ferris is a gifted satiristand very much in touch with the fear and paranoia that undercut US society
Geek-smart prose and wry humour. . .hilarious
Joshua Ferris has proved his astonishing ability to spin gold from ordinary air. . . As brave and adept as any writer out there
It's a pleasure watching this young writer confidently rangefrom the registers of broad punchline comedy to genuine spiritual depth. . . There's a happy side effect to reading the novel, as well: If you're a backslider like I was,it will guilt you into flossing again
Anengrossingandhilariously bleaknovel about a dentist being shook out of his comfortable atheism . . .This splintering of the self hasn't been performed in fiction so neatly since Philip Roth's "Operation Shylock'
Ferris [is] a Virgil of the disaffected. . . This is the novel's peculiar brilliance, to uncover its existential stakes in the most mundane tasks
Laugh-out-loud hilarious, combiningWoody Allen's New York nihilismwith an Ivy League vocabulary
Returns Ferris to the comedy of the workplace. . . his writing is so fresh and modern - acomedian's sense of timing mixed with a social critic's knack for shaking the bushes
Funny and surprisingly moving
It is completely wonderful . . . Good god he is talented
Brilliant. . .witty. . . passages of flashing comedy that sound likea stand-up theologian suffering a nervous breakdown
Joshua Ferris excels at mordantly comic novels about ordinary people in crisis . . .he writes with brio about the modern condition
Compellingbut never cheap,inventivebut never obscure . . . Ferris has secured his status asexactly the sort of mainstream literary novelist American fiction needs
A hoot. . . There'sa tincture of Pynchonian paranoiaà laThe Crying of Lot 49here, anda dash, too, of the kitchen-sink comic winsomenessthat the Dave Eggers generation brought to US literary fiction
This is fierce, pithy, unforgiving satire, taking a sledgehammer to all-American cracker-barrel homeliness. Its comic energy is fuelled by disgust and exasperation, in the tradition of Roth and Heller and John Kennedy O'Toole. But Ferris is also a dab hand at more delicate humour, every bit as contemporary . . .Ferris is very funny. . .His voice is unique
Joshua Ferris has been heralded asone of America's sharpest observers of 21st-century lifeand, reading his third novel, it's easy to see why.To Rise Again At A Decent Hourhas the immediacy and the trenchant satire of a brilliant stand-up routine as well as the big ideas and the in-depth research of a brilliant academic paper
To Rise Again at a Decent Hourisa funny novel, by turns ha-ha, peculiar and, like O'Rourke himself, suspended between heaven and earth
A riotously funny novel, whose narrator is engagingly out of step with the world around him.As engrossing as it is uproarious.
Ferris is famously good at writing about the workplace. . . and very good at portraying a man whose job is fixing teeth
TheCATCH-22of dentistry
People who can make comedy from human tragedy are rare and wonderful. It's an incredibly hard thing to do andtakes a kind of genius to deliver it on the page