The dinner party and other stories

These eleven stories by Joshua Ferris, many of which were first published in The New Yorker, are at once thrilling, strange, and comic. The modern tribulations of marriage, ambition, and the fear of missing out as the temptations flow like wine and the minutes of life tick down are explored with the...

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Main Author: Ferris, Joshua (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
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