Joshua Ferris: 10 books

Book cover of Svegliamoci pure, ma a un'ora decente
by Joshua Ferris
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 11, 2014

Paul ORourke 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,...
Book cover of Invito a cena
by Joshua Ferris
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 28, 2017

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, piú della narrativa contemporanea è in grado di restituire la crudezza e, nello stesso tempo, l’amabilità...
Book cover of The Dinner Party
by Joshua Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017

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...
Book cover of Then We Came to the End
by Joshua Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007

No one knows us quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts.  Every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Joshua Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is family at its strangest and...
Book cover of Speaking of Work: A Story of Love, Suspense and Paperclips
by Jonathan Ames, Lee Child, Billy Collins
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018

Lee Child's street corner. Gary Shteyngart's bed. Joyce Carol Oates's classroom. Roxane Gay's dream house. Billy Collins's New York City. Aimee Mann and Jonathan Coulton's kitchen. Valeria Luiselli's writing desk. Sloane Crosley's conference call. Alain Mabanckou's Department of Human Resources. Jonathan...
Book cover of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
by Joshua Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel by National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris explores the absurdities of modern life and one man's search for meaning. Paul O'Rourke is a man made of contradictions: he loves the world, but doesn't know how...
Book cover of The Unnamed
by Joshua Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010

*He was going to lose the house and everything in it. The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he would* lose his family. He stood inside the house and took stock. Everything in it had been taken for granted. How had that happened...
Book cover of Weer opstaan op een christelijk tijdstip
by Joshua Ferris
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 24, 2015

Paul O’Rourke, een licht chagrijnige tandarts met een goedlopende praktijk in New York, komt er langzaam achter dat hij meer nodig heeft dan een vast salaris en de perfecte mochaccino. Maar wat? Dan begint iemand zich online voor te doen als Paul, en moet hij lijdzaam toezien hoe een website, een...
Book cover of E poi siamo arrivati alla fine
by Joshua Ferris
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 22, 2010

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...
Book cover of Non conosco il tuo nome
by Joshua Ferris
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 12, 2015

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,...
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