Book details

The Bug

A Novel

Author: Ellen Ullman

The Bug

The Bug

$21.00

About This Book

With a New Introduction by Mary Gaitskill

A PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book

Ellen Ullman is a "rarity, a computer...

Page Count
384
On Sale
02/28/2012

Book Details

With a New Introduction by Mary Gaitskill

A PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book

Ellen Ullman is a "rarity, a computer programmer with a poet's feeling for language" (Laura Miller, Salon). The Bug breaks new ground in literary fiction, offering us a deep look into the internal lives of people in the technical world. Set in a start-up company in 1984, this highly acclaimed first novel explores what happens when a baffling software flaw—a bug so teasing it is named "the Jester"—threatens the survival of the humans beings who created it.

Imprint Publisher

Picador

ISBN

9781250002495

In The News

“Brilliant…Perfect for our time.” —USA Today

“Thrilling and intellectually fearless…If more contemporary novels delivered news this relevant and wise they'd have to stop declaring the death of the novel.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Takes the techno-novel to a new level of literary excellence…This is magnetic fiction.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“A thrillerlike tale…No one writes more eloquently than Ullman about the peculiar mindset of the people who create the digital tools we use every day.” —Salon

“Ellen Ullman writes unsparingly of the vivid, compelling, emotionally driven souls who gave us our new machines. By turns love story, tense psychological drama, and comedy of (very bad) manners, The Bug is an edgy and irresistible journey into lives all too rarely visited by literary types.” —Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize--winning author of March

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The Bug

The Bug

$21.00