Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

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.īoston Globe * Christian Science Monitor * New York Magazine * New York Times Book Review * St. Then We Came to the End (2007) is the debut novel of Joshua Ferris. Then We Came to the End Winner of the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, this debut novel is as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler.

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. Joshua Ferris’ first novel, Then We Came to the End (2007), is a quirky story about quirky people who work as creatives at an advertising agency. 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. Joshua Ferris is more reminiscent of Joseph Heller than Herman Melville, but his debut workplace. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris Hachette Book Group Then We Came to the End A Novel By Joshua Ferris 9.99 Format: ebook 9.99 Audiobook Download (Abridged) Trade Paperback 17.99 Audiobook CD (Abridged) 19. that rare comedy that feels blisteringly urgent.' (TIME) Winner of the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, this debut novel is 'as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler.