by Joshua Ferris · Back Bay Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780316016391
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«Then We Came to the End» is Joshua Ferris's satirical novel, published by Back Bay Books in paperback (416 pages, in English).
The novel depicts life in a Chicago advertising agency shaken by the crisis and layoffs. Written in the first-person plural, it follows employees who cope with uncertainty through gossip, rumors, elaborate pranks, coffee breaks, and disputes over the chairs and offices of those who leave, as the office empties out.
It is Joshua Ferris's first novel; it was a finalist for the National Book Award and received the PEN/Hemingway Award.
For readers of humorous fiction and satire, especially those interested in office culture and the working world.
Joshua Ferris is an American author best known for his debut novel Then We Came to the End (2007). The novel is a comedy about the American workplace, is narrated in the first-person plural, and is set in a fictitious Chicago ad agency facing challenges at the end of the 1990s Internet boom.
