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Original Essays | November 9, 2009

Jesse Bullington: IMG Abash'd the Devil Stood

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I don't believe in evil. It's a word I use, certainly, because words are shortcuts and we all take the short way round from time to time, but that's... Continue »
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Then We Came to the End (Readers Circle)

by Joshua Ferris

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ISBN13: 9781602851924
ISBN10: 1602851921
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No one knows us quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts.?? Every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Joshua Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is family at its strangest and best, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks.

???????? With a demon's eye for the details that make life worth noticing, Joshua Ferris tells a true and funny story about survival in life's strangest environment--the one we pretend is normal five days a week.

Not too manyauthors have written the Great American Office Novel. Joseph Heller did it in SomethingHappened (the one book of his to rival Catch-22). And Nicholson Baker pulled itoff in zanily fastidious fashion in The Mezzanine. To their ranks should beadded Joshua Ferris, whose THEN WE CAME TO THE END feels like a readymadeclassic of the genre. . . . A truly affecting novel about work, trust, love, and loneliness. -Seattle Times

Amasterwork of pitch and tone. . . . Ferris brilliantly captures the fishbowlquality of contemporary office life. -The New Yorker

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This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office marks the arrival of a major new voice in American fiction. The characters in Then We Came to the End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. By day they compete for the best office furniture left behind and try to make sense of the mysterious pro-bono ad campaign that is their only remaining "work."
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Juliann, November 22, 2008 (view all comments by Juliann)
This novel took me away... back to a time before children (and staying home with them), when I was working in an office (a time of fear and loathing of the office gossip machine, office politics and the proverbial office clown.) For anyone who has ever worked in an office, this book will tread on familiar and hysterical territory. Ferris's writing style is crisp and keen. His character building is dead on. You will fall in love with this book, it's characters and the story. I promise. (NOTE: DO NOT read the New York Times review of this book -- they are spoilers and gave away the ending!) Earn the ending by reading this book yourself, start to finish. It will not disappoint.
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ISBN:
9781602851924
Author:
Ferris, Joshua
Publisher:
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Chicago (Ill.)
Copyright:
2008
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Publication Date:
May 2008
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Language:
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476
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8.64x6.32x1.48 in. 1.57 lbs.
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