The release date for the English version of 'One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories' by
B.J. Novak is Feb 2014. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A collection of short stories that were "workshopped" in comedy clubs and bookshops on both coasts comes from the actor, writer, and director of the popular TV comedy The Office (US version).
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak is a first collection of stories that is very sensitive, incredibly engaging, and shockingly original—a hint of a much-needed fresh new voice in American literature.
Novak's confident style and vast imagination present readers to people, places, and concepts that are funny, perceptive, challenging, and moving—often all at once—across a dizzying variety of topics, themes, tones, and narrative voices.
In the movie One More Thing, a youngster finds out that collecting his $100,000 prize from a box of Frosted Flakes might destroy his family. A lady approaches renowned motivational speaker Tony Robbins in an attempt to court him and asks for his assistance. A principal of a school reveals a daring scheme to do away with math forever. Renowned ambulance driver looks for guts to follow his passion and give it all up to become a singer-songwriter. Novelist John Grisham muses on a colossal error. Overwhelmed by several alternatives, a recent entrant in heaven puts off fulfilling his long-standing pledge to see his grandma. We meet post-college pals who argue about how to organize an intervention in the Facebook age, as well as a hare bent on revenge who is obsessed with winning a rematch against the tortoise who destroyed his life. We discover the origins of the word February, why wearing a red t-shirt every day is the secret to finding love, and why the stock market is sometimes simply... down.
One More Thing finds its heart in the most human of phenomena: love, fear, family, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element that might make a person complete. It finds inspiration in questions ranging from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake, from the intensely familiar to the addictively imaginative. While each story in this book is unique, they all have the same light humor, tender heart, curious intellect, and all-around captivating personality of a writer who is fiercely committed to providing the reader with amusement.