The dinner party and other stories

By Joshua Ferris

Subjects: Marriage, Shapeshifting, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Redemption, Fiction, short stories (single author), Life change events

Description: These eleven stories by Joshua Ferris, many of which were first published in The New Yorker, are at once thrilling, strange, and comic. The modern tribulations of marriage, ambition, and the fear of missing out as the temptations flow like wine and the minutes of life tick down are explored with the characteristic wit and insight that have made Ferris one of our most critically acclaimed novelists.