One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction.

A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakesâ‚¬"only to discover that claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbinsâ‚¬"turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook.Â Along the way, we learn why wearing a red T-shirt every day is the key to finding love, how February got its name, and why the stock market is sometimes just . . . down.

Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake, One More Thing has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element just that might make a person complete. Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, the many pieces in this collection are like nothing else, but they have one thing in common: they share the playful humor, deep heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to the entertainment of the reader.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 38533247
Color White
ReleaseDate 2014-02-04
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780385351836

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	38533247
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2014-02-04
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780385351836

One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

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