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�� bug so teasing it is named "the Jester"��hreatens the survival of the humans beings who created it.