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Back Bay Books
June 2018
On Sale: May 29, 2018
256 pages
ISBN: 0316465968
EAN: 9780316465960
Kindle: B01M155JOY
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Fiction Family Life
These eleven stories by Joshua Ferris, many of which were
first published in The New Yorker, are at once thrilling,
strange, and comic. The modern tribulations of marriage,
ambition, and the fear of missing out as the temptations
flow like wine and the minutes of life tick down are
explored with the characteristic wit and insight that have
made Ferris one of our most critically acclaimed
novelists. Each of these stories burrows deep into the often awkward
and hilarious misunderstandings that pass between
strangers and lovers alike, and that turn ordinary lives
upside down. Ferris shows to what lengths we mortals go to
coax human meaning from our very modest time on earth, an
effort that skews ever-more desperately in the direction
of redemption. There's Arty Groys, the Florida retiree
whose birthday celebration involves pizza, a prostitute,
and a life-saving heart attack. There's Sarah, the
Brooklynite whose shape-shifting existential dilemma is
set in motion by a simple spring breeze. And there's Jack,
a man so warped by past experience that he's incapable of
having a normal social interaction with the man he hires
to help him move out of storage. The stories in The Dinner Party are about lives changed
forever when the reckless gives way to possibility and the
ordinary cedes ground to mystery. And each one confirms
Ferris's reputation as one of the most dazzlingly
talented, deeply humane writers at work today.
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