Description

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.