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Stories and Other Stories
Bet
Knopf
February 2014
On Sale: February 4, 2014
288 pages
ISBN: 0385351836
EAN: 9780385351836
Kindle: B00EGMQIIQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction
B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is
an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and
startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a
brilliant new voice in American fiction. A boy wins a
$100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes—only to
discover that claiming the winnings might unravel his
family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony
Robbins—turning for help to the famed motivator
himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options,
procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his
grandmother. We meet Sophia, the first artificially
intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who
might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare,
obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who
ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure
out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook.
Along the way, we learn why wearing a red T-shirt every day
is the key to finding love, how February got its name, and
why the stock market is sometimes just . . . down. Finding
inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to
the icing on carrot cake, One More Thing has at its heart
the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and
the inner stirring for the one elusive element just that
might make a person complete. Across a dazzling range of
subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, the many
pieces in this collection are like nothing else, but they
have one thing in common: they share the playful humor, deep
heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and altogether
electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to
the entertainment of the reader.
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