To Rise Again at a Decent Hour (35 page)

Joshua Ferris is the author of two previous novels,
Then We Came to the End
and
The Unnamed. Then We Came to the End
received the 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages. In 2010, Ferris was chosen for
The New Yorker
’s “20 Under 40” list of fiction writers. His short fiction has appeared in
The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House,
and
Best American Short Stories.
He lives in New York City.

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Then We Came to the End

The Unnamed

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The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Copyright © 2014 by Joshua Ferris

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