To Rise Again at a Decent Hour: A Novel
Autor Joshua Ferrisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2015
Paul O'Rourke is a man made of contradictions: he loves the world, but doesn't know how to live in it. He's a Luddite addicted to his iPhone, a dentist with a nicotine habit, a rabid Red Sox fan devastated by their victories, and an atheist not quite willing to let go of God.
Then someone begins to impersonate Paul online, and he watches in horror as a website, a Facebook page, and a Twitter account are created in his name. What begins as an outrageous violation of his privacy soon becomes something more soul-frightening: the possibility that the online "Paul" might be a better version of the real thing. As Paul's quest to learn why his identity has been stolen deepens, he is forced to confront his troubled past and his uncertain future in a life disturbingly split between the real and the virtual.
At once laugh-out-loud funny about the absurdities of the modern world, and indelibly profound about the eternal questions of the meaning of life, love and truth, TO RISE AGAIN AT A DECENT HOUR is a deeply moving and constantly surprising tour de force.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316033992
ISBN-10: 0316033995
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316033995
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
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Notă biografică
Joshua
Ferris
is
the
author
of
two
other
novels,Then
We
Came
to
the
End,which
was
a
finalist
for
the
National
Book
Award
and
received
the
PEN/Hemingway
Award,
andThe
Unnamed.His
fiction
has
appeared
inThe
New
Yorker,
Granta,
Tin
House,andThe
Best
American
Short
Stories.Ferris
was
chosen
forThe
New
Yorker's"20
Under
40"
list
of
fiction
writers
in
2010.
He
lives
in
New
York.
Recenzii
"To
Rise
Again
at
a
Decent
Houris
beautifully
written.
It's
also
funny,
thought-provoking,
and
touching.
One
hesitates
to
call
it
theCatch-22of
dentistry,
but
it's
sort
of
in
that
ballpark.
Some
books
simply
carry
you
along
on
the
strength
and
energy
of
the
author's
invention
and
unique
view
of
the
world.
This
is
one
of
those
books."—Stephen
King
"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."—Anthony Marra, author ofNew York TimesbestsellerA Constellation of Vital Phenomena
"Gut-bustingly funny... its wit is so sharp, its fake-biblical texts ... so clever and its reach so big ... It's an eminently worthy nominee for the Booker Prize or any other... a major achievement."—Janet Maslin,New York Times
A "wry, intelligent novel that adroitly navigates the borderland between the demands of faith and the persistence of doubt...In seizing upon both the transitory oddities of contemporary life and our enduring search for meaning, Joshua Ferris has created a winning modern parable...He's a gifted satirist with a tender heart, and if he continues to find targets as worthy as the ones he skewers here, his work should amuse and enlighten us for many years to come."—Shelf Awareness
"Enjoy the first great novel about social-media identity theft. . . . It's an atheist's pilgrimage in search not of God but of community . . . O'Rourke's search feels genuine, funny, tragic, and never dull. It'll also leave you flossing with a vengeance."—Boris Kachka,GQ
"[Ferris] shrewdly stages a kind of theological symposium in [an] uncomfortably intimate place, conducted halfway between levity and overeager sincerity... It's a pleasure watching this young writer confidently range from the registers of broad punchline comedy to genuine spiritual depth. The complementary notes of absurdity, alienation and longing read like Kurt Vonnegut or Joseph Heller customized for the 21stCentury."—Sam Sacks,The Wall Street Journal
"A novel that raises questions about meaning and belonging, even if the only answer is that we will never know...This is the novel's peculiar brilliance, to uncover its existential stakes in the most mundane tasks...[a] curiously provocative novel."—David L. Ulin,Los Angeles Times
"To Rise Again at a Decent Hourreminds us that even existential suffering can prove both charming and hilarious...Ferris has written an arresting novel, a playfully ironic riff on how a man can come to know himself...the cumulative effect of the novel tugs the heart just as surely as it sparks the mind."—Bruce Machart, Houston Chronicle
"Brilliant...Ferris has managed to blend the clever satire of his first book...with the grinding despair of his second . . . The result is a witty story. At his best, which is most of the time, Ferris spins Paul's observations and reflections into passages of flashing comedy that sound like a stand-up theologian suffering a nervous breakdown."—Ron Charles,The Washington Post
"An engrossing and hilariously bleak novel . . . This splintering of the self hasn't been performed in fiction so neatly since Philip Roth'sOperation Shylock."—John Freeman,Boston Globe
"A story made exhilarating by Ferris' wickedly dark humor and keen intelligence. The brilliant prose...never preens. It simply pulls the reader along in an effortlessly smooth ride. Ferris makes the tug-of-war between Paul's searching mind and his low spirits utterly fascinating...Ferris' three novels place him in grand company among our younger novelists. . . . All the same, he's a unique American original."—Dan Cryer, The San Francisco Chronicle
"Ferris's trademark blend of dark satire and ominous absurdity suits his subject, and his focus on one character allows him to perform a psychological excavation of his subject in conjunction with his examination of modern life...The result is a stimulating, bittersweet read."—Claire Fallon,The Huffington Post
"The author has proved his astonishing ability to spin gold from ordinary air . . . Ferris's third novel falls somewhere between the voice-driven power of the first [novel] and the idea-driven metaphor of the second . . . [He] remains as brave and adept as any writer out there."—Lauren Goff,The New York Times Book Review
"[An] alternately sad and hilarious new book...To Rise Again at a Decent Hourshowcases the wit, intelligence and keen eye for workplace absurdity the author displayed to such great effect in his first novel . . . a welcome outlet for Ferris' enormous virtuosity as a philosopher and storyteller. Ferris raises profound questions about the role of faith, not just in belonging, but in living."—Daniel Akst,Newsday
"[Ferris has] the keen ability to traverse the high wire of satire and lyricism, to at once write a sentence that can drop a reader's jaw, then make them giggle in the next . . . a writer perfectly at ease with both the bleakly absurd and the deeply humane, using them equally in hopeful pursuit of a redemptive truth."—Gregg LaGambina,The A.V. Club
"Suffice it to say thatTo Rise Again at a Decent Hourisn't just one of the best novels of the year, it's one of the funniest, and most unexpectedly profound, works of fiction in a very long time."—Michael Schaub, NPR.org
"Withalmost Pynchon-esque complexity, Ferris melds conspiracy and questions of faithin an entertaining way...Full of life's rough edges, the book resists a neatconclusion, favoring instead a simple scene that is comic perfection... Smart,sad, hilarious and eloquent, this shows a writer at the top of hisgame and surpassing the promise of his celebrated debut."—Kirkus(Starred Review)
PRAISE FORTHE UNNAMED:
"A stunner, an unnerving portrait of a man stripped of civilization's defenses. Ferris's prose is brash, extravagant, and, near the end, chillingly beautiful."—The New Yorker
"Spellbinding....The Unnamedunfolds in a hushed, shadowed dimension located somewhere between myth and a David Mamet play."—Laura Miller, Salon.com
"Arresting, ground-shifting, beautiful and tragic. This is the book a new generation of writers will answer to. No one in America writes like this."—Gary Shteyngart, author ofSuper Sad True Love StoryandLittle Failure
"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."—Anthony Marra, author ofNew York TimesbestsellerA Constellation of Vital Phenomena
"Gut-bustingly funny... its wit is so sharp, its fake-biblical texts ... so clever and its reach so big ... It's an eminently worthy nominee for the Booker Prize or any other... a major achievement."—Janet Maslin,New York Times
A "wry, intelligent novel that adroitly navigates the borderland between the demands of faith and the persistence of doubt...In seizing upon both the transitory oddities of contemporary life and our enduring search for meaning, Joshua Ferris has created a winning modern parable...He's a gifted satirist with a tender heart, and if he continues to find targets as worthy as the ones he skewers here, his work should amuse and enlighten us for many years to come."—Shelf Awareness
"Enjoy the first great novel about social-media identity theft. . . . It's an atheist's pilgrimage in search not of God but of community . . . O'Rourke's search feels genuine, funny, tragic, and never dull. It'll also leave you flossing with a vengeance."—Boris Kachka,GQ
"[Ferris] shrewdly stages a kind of theological symposium in [an] uncomfortably intimate place, conducted halfway between levity and overeager sincerity... It's a pleasure watching this young writer confidently range from the registers of broad punchline comedy to genuine spiritual depth. The complementary notes of absurdity, alienation and longing read like Kurt Vonnegut or Joseph Heller customized for the 21stCentury."—Sam Sacks,The Wall Street Journal
"A novel that raises questions about meaning and belonging, even if the only answer is that we will never know...This is the novel's peculiar brilliance, to uncover its existential stakes in the most mundane tasks...[a] curiously provocative novel."—David L. Ulin,Los Angeles Times
"To Rise Again at a Decent Hourreminds us that even existential suffering can prove both charming and hilarious...Ferris has written an arresting novel, a playfully ironic riff on how a man can come to know himself...the cumulative effect of the novel tugs the heart just as surely as it sparks the mind."—Bruce Machart, Houston Chronicle
"Brilliant...Ferris has managed to blend the clever satire of his first book...with the grinding despair of his second . . . The result is a witty story. At his best, which is most of the time, Ferris spins Paul's observations and reflections into passages of flashing comedy that sound like a stand-up theologian suffering a nervous breakdown."—Ron Charles,The Washington Post
"An engrossing and hilariously bleak novel . . . This splintering of the self hasn't been performed in fiction so neatly since Philip Roth'sOperation Shylock."—John Freeman,Boston Globe
"A story made exhilarating by Ferris' wickedly dark humor and keen intelligence. The brilliant prose...never preens. It simply pulls the reader along in an effortlessly smooth ride. Ferris makes the tug-of-war between Paul's searching mind and his low spirits utterly fascinating...Ferris' three novels place him in grand company among our younger novelists. . . . All the same, he's a unique American original."—Dan Cryer, The San Francisco Chronicle
"Ferris's trademark blend of dark satire and ominous absurdity suits his subject, and his focus on one character allows him to perform a psychological excavation of his subject in conjunction with his examination of modern life...The result is a stimulating, bittersweet read."—Claire Fallon,The Huffington Post
"The author has proved his astonishing ability to spin gold from ordinary air . . . Ferris's third novel falls somewhere between the voice-driven power of the first [novel] and the idea-driven metaphor of the second . . . [He] remains as brave and adept as any writer out there."—Lauren Goff,The New York Times Book Review
"[An] alternately sad and hilarious new book...To Rise Again at a Decent Hourshowcases the wit, intelligence and keen eye for workplace absurdity the author displayed to such great effect in his first novel . . . a welcome outlet for Ferris' enormous virtuosity as a philosopher and storyteller. Ferris raises profound questions about the role of faith, not just in belonging, but in living."—Daniel Akst,Newsday
"[Ferris has] the keen ability to traverse the high wire of satire and lyricism, to at once write a sentence that can drop a reader's jaw, then make them giggle in the next . . . a writer perfectly at ease with both the bleakly absurd and the deeply humane, using them equally in hopeful pursuit of a redemptive truth."—Gregg LaGambina,The A.V. Club
"Suffice it to say thatTo Rise Again at a Decent Hourisn't just one of the best novels of the year, it's one of the funniest, and most unexpectedly profound, works of fiction in a very long time."—Michael Schaub, NPR.org
"Withalmost Pynchon-esque complexity, Ferris melds conspiracy and questions of faithin an entertaining way...Full of life's rough edges, the book resists a neatconclusion, favoring instead a simple scene that is comic perfection... Smart,sad, hilarious and eloquent, this shows a writer at the top of hisgame and surpassing the promise of his celebrated debut."—Kirkus(Starred Review)
PRAISE FORTHE UNNAMED:
"A stunner, an unnerving portrait of a man stripped of civilization's defenses. Ferris's prose is brash, extravagant, and, near the end, chillingly beautiful."—The New Yorker
"Spellbinding....The Unnamedunfolds in a hushed, shadowed dimension located somewhere between myth and a David Mamet play."—Laura Miller, Salon.com
"Arresting, ground-shifting, beautiful and tragic. This is the book a new generation of writers will answer to. No one in America writes like this."—Gary Shteyngart, author ofSuper Sad True Love StoryandLittle Failure