Then We Came to the End
by:
Joshua Ferris (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781615522972 (1615522972)
Publish date: February 27th 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Edition language: English
I want to talk about Joshua Ferris's wonderful novel Then We Came to the End in a little bit. But first, I want to talk about something I just learned because I read this book. I want to talk about abridgment. I've always avoided abridged works. As an author, I would feel insulted having my work b...
The employees of an advertising agency are being laid off. They let us into their office lives.I know some of these people. Ok, most of these people. The character development was done well. There is not much plot other than the office intrigues of these people. It is the gossip and the craziness th...
What an absolutely lovely, witty and moving workspace comedy! I really REALLY enjoyed every single word of it. It’s 2001. The story takes place in a top Chicago advertising and marketing agency, struggling to adapt to the new internet-related market environment to stay in business basically. Which...
Poor Joshua Ferris. The classy contemporary writers of literary fiction who've blurbed his novel Then We Came to the End have compared him to Joseph Heller ("Then We Came to the End is the Catch-22 of the business world…" says Jim Shepard) and Peter DeVries ("…penned with a Devriesian sharpness…" a...
I've now done 10 years in open-plan offices. There was an incident at work last year where two colleagues and I realised we’d formed our own self-confirming gossip circle: Colleague A shared a rumour with me, I passed it on to Colleague B, and then they’d got together, told each other, and believed ...
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