About the book
Winner of the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, this debut novel is \"as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler . . . that rare comedy that feels blisteringly urgent.\" (TIME)
No one knows us in 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 Chicago ad agency depicted in Joshua Ferris's exuberantly acclaimed first novel is family at its best and worst, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks.
With a demon's eye for the details that make life worth noticing, Joshua Ferris tells an emotionally true and funny story about survival in life's strangest environment—the one we pretend is normal five days a week.
One of the Best Books of the Year
Boston Globe * Christian Science Monitor * New York Magazine * New York Times Book Review * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Time magazine * Salon
Editions of Then We Came to the End
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780316016384
- EBook
- ISBN 9780759572287
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Winner of the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, this debut novel is \"as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler . . . that rare comedy that feels blisteringly urgent.\" (TIME)
No one knows us in 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 Chicago ad agency depicted in Joshua Ferris's exuberantly acclaimed first novel is family at its best and worst, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks.
With a demon's eye for the details that make life worth noticing, Joshua Ferris tells an emotionally true and funny story about survival in life's strangest environment—the one we pretend is normal five days a week.
One of the Best Books of the Year
Boston Globe * Christian Science Monitor * New York Magazine * New York Times Book Review * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Time magazine * Salon
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Then We Came to the End about?
Winner of the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, this debut novel is \"as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler . . . that rare comedy that feels blisteringly urgent.\" (TIME)
No one knows us in 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 Chicago ad agency depicted in Joshua Ferris's exuberantly acclaimed first novel is family at its best and worst, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks.
With a demon's eye for the details that make life worth noticing, Joshua Ferris tells an emotionally true and funny story about survival in life's strangest environment—the one we pretend is normal five days a week.
One of the Best Books of the Year
Boston Globe * Christian Science Monitor * New York Magazine * New York Times Book Review * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Time magazine * Salon
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Then We Came to the End?
Fiction > Humorous fiction
Where can I read a sample of Then We Came to the End?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780316016384
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Then We Came to the End?
Joshua Ferris
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Then We Came to the End is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780316016384) and ebook(ISBN 9780759572287)
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