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- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Ferris, Joshua
- ISBN: 9780316016384
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.56 x 1.31
- Number Of Pages: 400
- Publication Year: 2007
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Office Life Never Felt So Good
Justin M. - 1 year 6 months agoThen We Came To The End, a satiric look at modern office life, provides the perfect entry point for anyone who has ever been curious about the many terrors confronting today's corporate employees but was too afraid to ask. Author Joshua Ferris introduces us to the many levels of boredom, intrigue, romance, insanity and the never-ending search for free lunch that plagues a dying ad firm in downtown Chicago sometime in the last half of the twentieth century. At times hilarious and heartbreaking, Ferris writes with an all-knowing wit that weaves an unexpected morality into this modern day fairy tale.
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Co-workers collectively tell their story
Adriana H. - 2 years 3 months agoEveryone knows how intimately you get to know your co-workers. We spend more time with them than our families, and a genuine affection and understanding emerges. And so it goes with the characters of Then We Came to the End, who tell their story collectively in the first person plural. The office staff copes with illness and layoffs, leaning on each other. This is a great book, a quick read and makes human the starkness of cubicle life.
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You'll Laugh, You'll Cry, You'll Quit Your Job...
Justin M. - 6 years agoThen We Came To The End, Joshua Ferris's first novel, written in 2007 and taking place at the peak of the dot-com bubble burst, is an emotionally-charged exploration of the ridiculous ins and outs of life in a failing Chicago ad agency. The characters all sparkle with life as they serve to parody the hopeless and the lost causes of modern workaday America. The comedic scenes (and there are many) are further emphasized by the undercurrent of sadness and despair that permeate this novel. Hi-jinx is mingled with cancer. Idiocy is laced with massive violence (or so it seems). Told with the emotional impact of a punch to the gut or a whoopee cushion under your swivel chair, Then We Came To The End is a novel for our time, written by an author of our time, about a time that many of us may wish to forget. It is not easy to write a work that is by turns both laugh out loud and cry in your cold coffee sad, but Joshua Ferris does this with masterly skill and courage and for that he surely deserves a promotion.
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