Then We Came to the End

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Satirical take on corporate America's office life.

If you've ever felt like your job is a surreal blend of camaraderie and absurdity, "Then We Came to the End" will resonate with you. Joshua Ferris captures the oddities of office culture with wit that's both sharp and compassionate. The unique first-person plural narration pulls you into the collective experience—a clever reflection on how personal identities often merge into the workplace hive. It's a read that's especially poignant if you appreciate humor tinged with the bittersweet reality of modern work life.

  • Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2007)
  • PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominee (2008)
  • Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2007)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2007)
  • PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Then We Came to the End

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ISBN: 9780141027630
Authors: Joshua Ferris
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 2008-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.46
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Description

They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues. There's Chris Yop, clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn Mason, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about; Carl Garbedian, secretly taking someone else's medication; Marcia Dwyer, whose hair is stuck in the eighties; and Benny, who's just - well, just Benny. Amidst the boredom, redundancies, water cooler moments, meetings, flirtations and pure rage, life is happening, to their great surprise, all around them. "Then We Came to the End" is about sitting all morning next to someone you cross the road to avoid at lunch. It's the story of your life and mine.
 

Satirical take on corporate America's office life.

If you've ever felt like your job is a surreal blend of camaraderie and absurdity, "Then We Came to the End" will resonate with you. Joshua Ferris captures the oddities of office culture with wit that's both sharp and compassionate. The unique first-person plural narration pulls you into the collective experience—a clever reflection on how personal identities often merge into the workplace hive. It's a read that's especially poignant if you appreciate humor tinged with the bittersweet reality of modern work life.

  • Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2007)
  • PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominee (2008)
  • Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2007)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2007)
  • PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.