Then We Came to the End: A Novel -- 10th Anniversary Edition - Couverture souple

"Ten years later, [the book] still speaks with urgency, charm, and a dose of mordant humor."―Bill Tipper, Barnes & Noble Review


"Expansive, great-hearted and acidly funny. . . . A perceptive and darkly entertaining novel."―New York Times Book Review

"Very funny and impressively observed. . . . Original and inspired."―Washington Post Book World

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

"A charming and sometimes very funny story of worker bees pushed past the brink of boredom....Ferris maintains a wonderfully wry tone and has a fine observational eye for all the absurdities of the modern workplace."―USA Today

"Fabulous. . . . With the sort of exuberance and energy that marked Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City."―Chicago Tribune

"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

The National Book Award finalist and debut novel by the bestselling author of The Dinner Party: "A readymade classic of the office-novel genre. . . . A truly affecting novel about work, trust, love, and loneliness." --Seattle Times

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.