Sorry. Standard loneliness package ; First person shooter ; Troubleshooting -- Please. Hero absorbs major damage ; Human for beginners ; Inventory ; Open ; Note to self -- Thank you. Yeoman ; Designer emotion ; The book of categories ; Adult contemporary -- All of the above. Sorry please thank you.;
Sorry Please Thank You: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
โ Scribed by Charles Yu
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Pantheon Books
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 80 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1299176097
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โฆ Synopsis
The author of the widely praised debut novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe returns with a hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly original collection of short stories.
A big-box store employee is confronted by a zombie during the graveyard shift, a problem that pales in comparison to his inability to ask a coworker out on a date . . . A fighter leads his band of virtual warriors, thieves, and wizards across a deadly computer-generated landscape . . . A company outsources grief for profit, their tagline: "Don't feel like having a bad day? Let someone else have it for you." Drawing from both pop culture and science, Charles Yu is a brilliant observer of contemporary society, filling his stories with equal parts laugh-out-loud humor and piercing insight into the human condition. He has already garnered comparisons to such masters as Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, and in Sorry Please Thank You , we have resounding proof of a major new...
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