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| Then We Came To The End (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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Full blurb:
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 Yop, who is clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn Mason, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about; Carl Garbedian, secretly taking someone else’s medication; Marcia Dwyer, 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.
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First page first lines:
‘We were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. At least those of us who smoked had something to look forward to at ten-fifteen. Most of us liked most everyone, a few of us hated specific individuals, one or two people loved everyone and everything. Those who loved everyone were unanimously reviled’...
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Category: Novel
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Author: Joshua Ferris
Joshua Ferris was born in Illinois in 1974. He attended the University of Iowa and the University of California, Irvine. Then We Came To The End was shortlisted for the National Book award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 2007. Joshua Ferris now lives in New York.
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Publisher: Penguin Books
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Reviews:
‘Very funny, intense and exhilarating... For the first time in fiction, it has truly captured the way we work.’ – The Times
‘As dazzling as Franzen’s The Corrections and as confident as Tartt’s The Secret History... Exceptional and very funny.’ – Daily Telegraph.
‘Slick, sophisticated and very funny, Ferris’ cracking debut has modern Everyman fighting for his identity in an increasingly impersonal world.’ – Daily Mail.
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| Book code: BTD045 |
| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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