Then we came to the end - BookWyrm.World

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2007 by Little, Brown and Co..

ISBN:: 978-0-316-01638-4
OCLC Number:: 62679893

(2 reviews)

No one knows us 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 ad agency Joshua Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is family at its strangest and best, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. With a demon's eye for the details that make life worth noticing, Joshua Ferris tells a true and funny story about survival in life's strangest environment--the one we pretend is normal five days a week.

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kerry reviewed Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

Review of 'Then We Came to the End' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This book was easy to read, and it quickly pulled me into the tragicomic lives of employees an advertising agency.

Those of us who are alumni of corporate cube-land can relate to what happens in this novel: these people thrive on rumors, they flock to free food in the kitchen, they break up their idle chitchat whenever the boss comes by, they parse everything management says to search for hidden meanings, they go to lunch, they play pratical jokes, they take offense.

"These people will believe anything. They will say anything."

Initially funny, the tone gets darker as employees are let go (or "walked Spanish," a terrific idiom). Unfortunately, having a large cast of characters means our knowledge of them is limited (apart from a poignant interlude that focuses on Lynn Mason, the boss).

This book was a great reflection on where white-collar working class America finds itself after the …

This book was easy to read, and it quickly pulled me into the tragicomic lives of employees an advertising agency.

Those of us who are alumni of corporate cube-land can relate to what happens in this novel: these people thrive on rumors, they flock to free food in the kitchen, they break up their idle chitchat whenever the boss comes by, they parse everything management says to search for hidden meanings, they go to lunch, they play pratical jokes, they take offense.

"These people will believe anything. They will say anything."

Initially funny, the tone gets darker as employees are let go (or "walked Spanish," a terrific idiom). Unfortunately, having a large cast of characters means our knowledge of them is limited (apart from a poignant interlude that focuses on Lynn Mason, the boss).

This book was a great reflection on where white-collar working class America finds itself after the dot-com collapse and 9/11.

kerry reviewed Then we came to the end by Joshua Ferris

Review of 'Then we came to the end' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This book was easy to read, and it quickly pulled me into the tragicomic lives of employees an advertising agency.

Those of us who are alumni of corporate cube-land can relate to what happens in this novel: these people thrive on rumors, they flock to free food in the kitchen, they break up their idle chitchat whenever the boss comes by, they parse everything management says to search for hidden meanings, they go to lunch, they play pratical jokes, they take offense.

"These people will believe anything. They will say anything."

Initially funny, the tone gets darker as employees are let go (or "walked Spanish," a terrific idiom). Unfortunately, having a large cast of characters means our knowledge of them is limited (apart from a poignant interlude that focuses on Lynn Mason, the boss).

This book was a great reflection on where white-collar working class America finds itself after the …

This book was easy to read, and it quickly pulled me into the tragicomic lives of employees an advertising agency.

Those of us who are alumni of corporate cube-land can relate to what happens in this novel: these people thrive on rumors, they flock to free food in the kitchen, they break up their idle chitchat whenever the boss comes by, they parse everything management says to search for hidden meanings, they go to lunch, they play pratical jokes, they take offense.

"These people will believe anything. They will say anything."

Initially funny, the tone gets darker as employees are let go (or "walked Spanish," a terrific idiom). Unfortunately, having a large cast of characters means our knowledge of them is limited (apart from a poignant interlude that focuses on Lynn Mason, the boss).

This book was a great reflection on where white-collar working class America finds itself after the dot-com collapse and 9/11.

Subjects

Clerks -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction
Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction