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Book SynopsisA HILARIOUS SATIRE THAT SHOWS OFFICE DYNAMICS AT THEIR MOST PETTY AND PROFOUND FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR, JOSHUA FERRIS
They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues.
There''s Chris, clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about; Carl, secretly taking someone else''s medication; Marcia, whose hair is stuck in the eighties; and Benny, who''s just - well, just Benny. Amidst the boredom, redundancies, water cooler moments, meetings, flirtations and pure rage, life is happening, to their great surprise, all around them.
Then We Came to the End is about sitting all morning next to someone you cross the road to avoid at lunch. It''s the story of your life and mine.
*Joshua Ferris'' mind-blowing new book, A Calling for Charlie Barn
Trade 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 *
As impressively confident as Donna Tartt's The Secret History and as technically dazzling as Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections . . . Exceptional, funny, radical * Telegraph *
