Then We Came to the End
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 First US edition with image of Post-it notes |
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| Author(s) | Joshua Ferris |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
| Publication date | March 1, 2007 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 400 pp (HB 1st edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0-316-01638-4 |
| OCLC Number | 62679893 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.6 22 |
| LC Classification | PS3606.E774 T47 2007 |
Then We Came to the End is the first novel by Joshua Ferris. It was released by Little, Brown and Company on March 1, 2007. A satire of the American workplace, it is similar in tone to Don DeLillo's Americana, even borrowing DeLillo's first line for its title.
It takes place in a Chicago advertising agency that is experiencing a downturn at the end of the 1990s Internet boom. Ferris employs a first-person-plural narrative.
[edit] Critical reaction
The book was greeted with positive reviews from GQ,[volume & issue needed] The New Yorker,[1] Esquire,[volume & issue needed] and Slate.[2] The book was named one of the Best Books of 2007 by The New York Times.[3]
Time magazine's Lev Grossman named it one of the Top 10 Fiction Books of 2007, ranking it at #2.[4][5]
The book also won the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel.
[edit] References
- ^ "Briefly Noted: Then We Came to the End"; newyorker.com; March 26, 2007.
- ^ O'Rourke, Meghan; "Hell Is Other Cubicles: Joshua Ferris' new novel about work, the great American pastime."; slate.com; March 8, 2007.
- ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2007"; The New York Times; December 9, 2007.
- ^ Grossman, Lev; "The 10 Best Fiction Books"; Time magazine; December 24, 2007; Pages 44 - 45.
- ^ Grossman, Lev; Top 10 Fiction Books; time.com
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