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Then We Came to the End (Readers Circle)

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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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Stephen Casner, January 1, 2010 (view all comments by Stephen Casner)
This novel, depicting the collapse of an advertising agency in Chicago and its consequences, foreshadowed the economic crisis we have been living through. It combines sympathy for the individuals involved with a wicked and wry insight that made me laugh out loud and reminded me of Catch 22.
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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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Product Details

ISBN:
9781602851924
Publisher:
Center Point Large Print
Subject:
Large type books
Author:
Ferris, Joshua
Subject:
Clerks
Subject:
General
Subject:
Chicago (Ill.)
Edition Description:
Center Point
Large Print:
Y
Series:
Platinum Readers Circle
Publication Date:
May 2008
Binding:
Library Binding
Language:
English
Pages:
476
Dimensions:
8.64x6.32x1.48 in. 1.57 lbs.
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Product details 476 pages Center Point Large Print - English 9781602851924 Reviews:
"Synopsis" by , 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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