Sorry Please Thank You, Charles Yu
Sorry Please Thank You, Charles Yu
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Sorry Please Thank You
Stories

Author: Charles Yu

Narrator: A Full Cast

Unabridged: 4 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/24/2012

Synopsis

New York Times Notable Book author Charles Yu wrote the best-selling novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. In his stunning, often humorous collection Sorry Please Thank You, Yu draws on pop culture and science to make incisive observations about society- and offer touching insight into the human condition. In two of Yu's remarkable stories, he focuses on a big-box-store night-shift employee with girl trouble and a company that outsources grief for profit.

About Charles Yu

Charles Yu is the author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, which was named one of the best books of the year by Time magazine. He received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award for his story collection Third Class Superhero and was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award. His work has been published in the New York Times, Playboy, and Slate, among other periodicals.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sunny on September 06, 2021

3.5 thought provoking but written for men by a man fr......more

Goodreads review by Kyle on November 05, 2014

This collection was so good I read the first 100 pages in one sitting. It's mostly made up of two types of stories: more narrative, character oriented pieces, that play with genre in the way Yu is really known for. For a lot of people these are probably the highlight of the collection, but I enjoyed......more

Goodreads review by fatma on August 30, 2020

way too caught up in its own (supposed) cleverness and metafictionality to actually deliver good short stories......more

Goodreads review by Ｆｒａｎｋｈ on November 15, 2015

I bought this book first, but the very first Charles Yu work I've read was my next purchase which was How to Live in a Science Fictional Universe. I could never begin to tell you just how madly in love I was with it from start to finish. You can read my review about it in case you're curious. Now, i......more

Goodreads review by Louise on June 27, 2012

Sorry. Please. Thank you. They say that if you knew the words of these three phrases in any language, you can probably get by pretty well. Maybe if you can understand all the stories in here, you'll be able to get by in life? Overall, I found it to be like a less-successful Stories of Your Life and......more

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