One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780385351836)

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 Flakes--only to discover that 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 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.

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.

Author: B. J. Novak
ISBN-10: 0385351836
ISBN-13: 9780385351836
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2014
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.89w x 1.21d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2013 pg. 48
Publishers Weekly 11/25/2013
Library Journal 01/01/2014 pg. 105
Booklist 01/01/2014 pg. 40
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2014
People Weekly 02/17/2014 pg. 56
Entertainment Weekly 02/14/2014 pg. 38
Shelf Awareness 02/14/2014
New York Times Book Review 02/23/2014 pg. 8
New Yorker (The) 03/02/2014 pg. 26
People Weekly 06/02/2014 pg. 60
New York Times Book Review 03/15/2015 pg. 28
Entertainment Weekly 03/06/2015 pg. 73
Library Journal 09/15/2013