· Joshua Ferris’s “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour,” shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is about an atheistic but Philo-Semitic dentist who has no luck with www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. · What gives “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour” a fighting chance against the forces of tedium is that it’s a Joshua Ferris book, and the author has proved his astonishing ability to spin gold Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour showcases the wit, intelligence and keen eye for workplace absurdity the author displayed to such great effect in his first novel a welcome outlet for Ferris' enormous virtuosity as a philosopher and storyteller. Ferris raises profound questions about the role of faith, not just in belonging, but in living."―/5().
Book Review: 'To Rise Again At A Decent Hour,' By Joshua Ferris Joshua Ferris' darkly comic new novel centers on a faith-doubting dentist who finds his identity's been stolen by a strange. Dentists, statistically, have the highest suicide rate among professionals. In addition, coming-of-age stories are usually kept for the under crowd. Still, with these many caveats, in TO RISE AGAIN AT A DECENT HOUR, Joshua Ferris's protagonist is a year-old dentist we eventually care about, as he learns to care about himself. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour showcases the wit, intelligence and keen eye for workplace absurdity the author displayed to such great effect in his first novel a welcome outlet for Ferris' enormous virtuosity as a philosopher and storyteller. Ferris raises profound questions about the role of faith, not just in belonging, but in living.
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour showcases the wit, intelligence and keen eye for workplace absurdity the author displayed to such great effect in his first novel a welcome outlet for Ferris' enormous virtuosity as a philosopher and storyteller. Ferris raises profound questions about the role of faith, not just in belonging, but in living."—. If you’re afraid of dentists or demanding fiction, back away because “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour” is a brilliant mess of a novel that drills at a raw nerve of existential dread. It’s a deceptiv Joshua Ferris’s new novel is about a dentist, and like a good dentist, Ferris welcomes us in with a few jokes and some distracting chitchat. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris published in and was shortlisted for Man Booker Prize in Other Works Mentioned:The Library at Ni.
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