Then We Came to the End - Couverture souple

Ferris, Joshua

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 031601639X ISBN 13 : 9780316016391

Editeur : Back Bay Books, 2008

Synopsis

Book by Ferris Joshua

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"What looks at first glance like a sweet-tempered satire of workplace culture is revealed upon closer inspection to be a very serious novel about, well, America. It may even be, in its own modest way, a great American novel." ―Los Angeles Times

"A masterwork of pitch and tone. . . . Ferris brilliantly captures the fishbowl quality of contemporary office life."―The New Yorker

"Not too many authors have written the Great American Office Novel. Joseph Heller did it in Something Happened (the one book of his to rival Catch-22). And Nicholson Baker pulled it off in zanily fastidious fashion in The Mezzanine. To their ranks should be added Joshua Ferris, whose THEN WE CAME TO THE END feels like a readymade classic of the genre. . . . A truly affecting novel about work, trust, love, and loneliness."―Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Back Bay Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 031601639X
• ISBN 13: 9780316016391
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432