- Booker Prize 2014 · Shortlist
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Joshua Ferris (born 1974)
English editions
Written in EnglishTo Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Little, Brown and Company · United States · 10 March 2015 · Paperback · 352 pages
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Little, Brown and Company · United States · May 2014 · Hardcover · 336 pages
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Penguin · United Kingdom · 18 September 2014 · Paperback · 352 pages
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Paul O'Rourke runs a dental practice in New York, where his office manager is his former girlfriend and his devout hygienist wonders why he has no faith. He is full of contradictions: a Luddite hooked on his smartphone, a dentist who smokes, a Red Sox fan thrown by their victories, an atheist not quite ready to give up on God. Then someone starts posting as him on a website and on social media, and uses those accounts to speak for the Ulms, who trace their line to Amalek in the Old Testament and claim Paul as one of their own. As he tries to discover who has taken his identity and why, he has to face his own history and wonder whether the online Paul is the better one.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
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- Satire (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United States
- First published
- 2014
- Author's age
- 40 when first published
- ISBN
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9780316033978 (Little, Brown and Company, United States)
9780141047386 (Penguin, United Kingdom)
9780316033992 (Little, Brown and Company, United States)
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