Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris - ISBN: 9780141027630
Paperback
Cubicle life: boredom, rage, and surprising connections at the office.

Then We Came to the End

a Novel

$32.41

  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    5 May 2008

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Summary

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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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141027630
ISBN-10:0141027630
Author:Joshua Ferris
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Edition:1st
Release Date:5 May 2008
Weight:279g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 27mm
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Critics Review

‘Outstanding, hugely satisfying, exceptionally well-executed

Outstanding, hugely satisfying, exceptionally well-executed … An incisive, urgent, funny and snappily written novel Sunday Times Magazine As impressively confident as Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and as technically dazzling as Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections … Exceptional, funny, radical Telegraph Brilliant, funny, stomach-turningly accurate Observer

About The Author

Joshua Ferris

Joshua Ferris was born in Illinois in 1974. He is the author of Then We Came to the End (2007), which was nominated for the National Book Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and the highly acclaimed The Unnamed. In 2010 he was selected for the New Yorker’s prestigious ‘20 under 40’ list. In 2014 To Rise Again at a Decent Hour won the Dylan Thomas Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in upstate New York.

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