The Bug: A Novel

The Bug: A Novel
ISBN-10
1250024579
ISBN-13
9781250024572
Category
Fiction
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2012-02-28
Publisher
Picador
Author
Ellen Ullman

Description

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 human beings who created it.

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