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Named a best book of the year by NPR, Vogue, and the New York Times Book Review, the hilarious and profound new novel from National Book Award finalist Joshua Ferris is “a fine American novel about family, love, and a decent but flawed man trying to be better" (Stephen King). Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's compromises and in a house ...

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From the Booker-shortlisted author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour comes a novel about fathers, sons, thwarted dreams and confronting the reality of who we really areCharlie Barnes is a mid-century man devoted to his newspaper and his landline. But Charlie is about to get dragged into our troubled age by his storyteller son, who has a different idea of him than he has of himself. Then there are his other children, his ex-wives, present wife,...

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Charlie Barnes, sixty-eight years old, reasonable man, small-business owner is facing the abyss and it's time to reckon with how he has lived his life so far. What happened to all those great ideas that were snatched from the jaws of success? And what was with all those unsuccessful marriages? Well, who's counting the wives when Barbara, his fifth and most permanent wife, is such a rock solid pillar of society?Maybe Jake Barnes, son of Charlie...

From the Booker-shortlisted author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour comes a novel about fathers, sons, thwarted dreams and confronting the reality of who we really areCharlie Barnes is a mid-century man devoted to his newspaper and his landline. But Charlie is about to get dragged into our troubled age by his storyteller son, who has a different idea of him than he has of himself. Then there are his other children, his ex-wives, present wife,...

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Una grande agenzia di pubblicità sulle rive dell'immenso lago di fronte a Chicago, nel cuore dei grattacieli più antichi d'America. Qui, tra open space e cubicoli, tra computer e stampanti, si svolge la commedia umana di un gruppo di giovani spregiudicati e sognatori, cinici e brillanti, che ogni mattina, fatalmente, si incontra nello stesso luogo: in ufficio. Carl, Karen, Benny, Amber, Jim sanno tutto di tutti. Sanno che Tom è pazzo, e che Ly...

Mit einer geradezu unheimlichen Menschenkenntnis schildert Joshua Ferris seine Grübler und Neurotiker, seine hochintelligenten und sensiblen Männer und Frauen, die so gern aus ihrer Haut möchten. Seine Stories beleuchten die absurden Seiten des Alltags und balancieren souverän auf dem schmalen Grat zwischen Komik und Tragik.Ein Pärchen bereitet sich auf die Dinnerparty mit einem anderen Pärchen vor, indem es über den zu erwartenden langweilige...

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La fragilità della condizione maschile odierna può vantare, com'è noto, una sterminata letteratura da parte delle scienze sociali, e infinite tesi che pretendono di venirne a capo. Nulla, però, più della narrativa contemporanea è in grado di restituire la crudezza e, nello stesso tempo, l'amabilità e la futilità di questo fenomeno. Con "E poi siamo arrivati alla fine", "Non conosco il tuo nome" e "Svegliamoci pure, ma a un'ora decente", le sue...

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year: The first collection of short stories from the critically acclaimed, prize-winning author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour 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...

Joshua Ferris was born in Illinois in 1974. He is the author of Then We Came to the End (2007), which was nominated for the National Book Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and the highly acclaimed The Unnamed. In 2010 he was selected for the New Yorker's prestigious '20 under 40' list. In 2014 To Rise Again at a Decent Hour won the Dylan Thomas Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in upstate New York.

Tim è un uomo giovane e attraente, e il passare degli anni sembra avergli donato il fascino luminoso e intenso di un attore di teatro. La moglie Jane conserva intatto il suo amore per lui, e attraverso le piccole difficoltà di ogni giorno il loro matrimonio ha acquisito la forza di un vero legame, complice e sentimentale. Nonostante le lunghe ore passate in ufficio, Tim lavora con passione. È socio di un autorevole studio legale di Manhattan, ...

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Paul O'Rourke vive a New York in un appartamento su due livelli con vista sulla Brooklyn Promenade. Va a cena tre o quattro volte a settimana da chef che hanno parecchie stelle Michelin, infanzie trascorse nella valle del Rodano e show televisivi tutti loro. Si aggira in luoghi dove le scorte di vino, da sole, fanno sembrare l'Impero romano una zona depressa del Kansas. Ha uno studio di dentista che occupa metà del piano terra di un condominio...

Joshua Ferris' debut novel Then We Came to the End was both heralded by critics and a New York Times bestseller, and marked the arrival of a startlingly talented young writer. With THE UNNAMED, Ferris imagines the collision between one man's free will and the forces of nature that are bigger than any of us.

Joshua Ferris was born in Illinois in 1974. He is the author of Then We Came to the End (2007), which was nominated for the National Book Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and the highly acclaimed The Unnamed. In 2010 he was selected for the New Yorker's prestigious '20 under 40' list. In 2014 To Rise Again at a Decent Hour won the Dylan Thomas Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in upstate New York.

Paul O'Rourke ist ein Zahnarzt mit einer gutgehenden Praxis an der Park Avenue in Manhattan. Er liebt das Leben, auch wenn er meist nicht besonders viel damit anzufangen weiß. Als Atheist, Zyniker und Stadtneurotiker hat man es auch nicht gerade leicht. Als plötzlich ein Fremder im Internet unter O'Rourkes Namen und Beruf auftritt, fühlt er sich fundamental in seiner Identität bedroht, nicht nur in den virtuellen Tiefen des Internets, sondern ...