Ferris, Joshua

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Description: Joshua Ferris writes his literary fiction as a form of cultural criticism. Often hilarious, often chilling, his novels hold a mirror up to modern American life. His urban settings are populated by an array of troubled middle and upper-middle class characters who define themselves by their professional and social status. Ferris then delights in abruptly shifting that framework. The results, told in urbane, barbed prose, are humorous, excruciating, and completely sympathetic. We watch good people, confident of their intrinsic worth, slide underneath the shifting tectonics of personal and national tragedy and come out whole again. Start with: Then We Came to the End

Description: Joshua Ferris writes his literary fiction as a form of cultural criticism. Often hilarious, often chilling, his novels hold a mirror up to modern American life. His urban settings are populated by an array of troubled middle and upper-middle class characters who define themselves by their professional and social status. Ferris then delights in abruptly shifting that framework. The results, told in urbane, barbed prose, are humorous, excruciating, and completely sympathetic. We watch good people, confident of their intrinsic worth, slide underneath the shifting tectonics of personal and national tragedy and come out whole again. Start with: Then We Came to the End