Then We Came to the End: A Novel -

Joshua Ferris

Penguin Books

2008

400 páginas

13h 20m

ISBN-10: 0141027630

This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office signals the arrival of a gloriously talented new writer. 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."

Review

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 )

Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

It's a long time since I've read a novel so painfully funny, or so absurdly true