Then we came to the end: a novel
(Book)
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. Among coworkers fighting for their jobs and their precious perks: Tom Mota, recently divorced and inexplicably wearing three company polo shirts, one on top of the other, every day; Joe Pope, a workaholic and perpetual victim of office sabotage; Carl Garbedian, whose unchecked depression has led him to "borrow" Janine Gorjanc's medication and black out his windows; Chris Yop, suspected of stealing Tom Mota's chair; and Marcia Dwyer with whom Benny Shassburger is in love, despite her mean streak and badly dated haircut. As one colleague after another is laid off, everyone strikes their best business-as-usual pose, pretending to make headway on the mysterious pro bono ad campaign that is their only remaining "work". Meanwhile tempers flare, office furniture disappears, and the survivors parse their bosses' decisions in ever-more paranoid sessions at the nearest bar.--Cover.
Notes
Ferris, J. (2007). Then we came to the end: a novel. New York, Little, Brown and Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Ferris, Joshua. 2007. Then We Came to the End: A Novel. New York, Little, Brown and Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Ferris, Joshua, Then We Came to the End: A Novel. New York, Little, Brown and Co, 2007.
MLA Citation (style guide)Ferris, Joshua. Then We Came to the End: A Novel. New York, Little, Brown and Co, 2007.
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