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To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

Joshua Ferris

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#3618 of 8,085 books · #1835 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (2014).

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. 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.

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Publisher
Viking
ISBN-13
9788491041436
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Identity and technologySearch for meaningModern alienation

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