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Bezig met laden... To Rise Again at a Decent Hour: A Novel (editie 2014)door Joshua Ferris
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— and to watch as O’Rourke is slowly seduced out of his doubts about this group, whose sole philosophical flag is doubt, is one of the pleasures in a book filled with them. The second thing to say is that this book is obscenely, inventively hilarious..... Reading this book in public places you in danger of being taken for drunk or mentally ill. ...For Ferris, the inability to take language for granted is what makes him one of the most dynamic writers of his generation. And somehow, out of this deeply twisted comic novel, Ferris finds a stirring, deeply felt message about faith, though not necessarily a positive one...Of course, there's more to it than that, and there's more to this novel than can be described in one (or, frankly, many) reviews. Suffice it to say that To Rise Again at a Decent Hour isn't just one of the best novels of the year, it's one of the funniest, and most unexpectedly profound, works of fiction in a very long time. Something can never be anything, as O'Rourke notes, but Ferris' triumphant book is everything you could want from a novel of faith and its opposite — whatever that may be. And whatever reservations you might have about the overall shape of the thing, or how its various set pieces are stitched together, you cannot deny that this is a genuinely funny book. Not funny in the wry-smirk way of so many “comic” novels. Actually funny. ...What follows is a comic theological thriller in the vein of Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union...Part of the problem is reconciling the gags with the gravitas. That Ferris makes it work so often is the mark of his considerable talent; that he sometimes fails is the mark of his ambition for his writing. PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
After noticing his identity has been stolen and used to create various social media accounts, a man with a troubled past, Paul O'Rourke, begins to wonder if his virtual alter ego is actually a better version of himself.
"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" -- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden.
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