Bug

Ellen Ullman

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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.

Book Details

Publisher: Picador USA
Publish Date: Feb 28th, 2012
Pages: 384
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 1.00in - 1.00lb
EAN: 9781250002495
Categories: • Literary• World Literature - American - 21st Century

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About the Author

Ullman, Ellen: - Ellen Ullman wrote her first computer program in 1978. She went on to have a twenty-year career as a programmer and software engineer. Her essays and books have become landmark works describing the social, emotional, and personal effects of technology. She is the author of the novels: By Blood, a New York Times Notable Book; and The Bug, a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her memoir, Close to the Machine, about her life as a software engineer during the internet's first rise, became a cult classic. She is based in San Francisco.

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Praise for this book

"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