{"id":5766,"date":"2015-02-03T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780804169783"},"modified":"2015-02-03T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T05:30:00","slug":"one-more-thing-by-b-j-novak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/03\/one-more-thing-by-b-j-novak\/","title":{"rendered":"One More Thing by B.J. Novak"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One More Thing<\/a> Stories and Other Stories
Written by<\/b> B.J. Novak<\/a><\/h3>\n

Trade Paperback<\/b>, 288 pages | Vintage | Fiction – Literary; Humor; Fiction – Short Stories (single author) | $14.95<\/b> | February 3, 2015 | 978-0-8041-6978-3 (0-8041-6978-0)<\/p>\n

B.J. Novak’s One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories<\/i> is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction.<\/p>\n

A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes—only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins—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 also 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.  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<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake, One More Thing<\/i> has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element that might just 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.<\/p>\n


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<\/a><\/p>\n

One More Thing<\/a> Stories and Other Stories
Written by<\/b> B.J. Novak<\/a><\/h3>\n

Trade Paperback<\/b>, 288 pages | Vintage | Fiction – Literary; Humor; Fiction – Short Stories (single author) | $14.95<\/b> | February 3, 2015 | 978-0-8041-6978-3 (0-8041-6978-0)<\/p>\n

B.J. Novak’s One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories<\/i> is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction.<\/p>\n

A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes—only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins—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 also 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.  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<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake, One More Thing<\/i> has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element that might just 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.<\/p>\n

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