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To Rise Again At A Decent Hour
Joshua Ferris
Batery.Bet
Little, Brown and Company
May 2014
On Sale: May 13, 2014
340 pages
ISBN: 0316033979
EAN: 9780316033978
Kindle: B00EXTQV70
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction
A big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel about
the mysteries of modern life by National Book Award Finalist
Joshua Ferris, one of the most exciting voices of his
generation
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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