Then We Came to the End

by Joshua Ferris

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Then We Came to the End

Original publication date

2007

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Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Awards and honors

New York Times Notable Book of the Year (Fiction & Poetry, 2007)

New York Times Best Books of the Year (2007)

National Book Award finalist (Fiction, 2007)

Time's Best Books of the Year (2, Fiction, 2007)

The Morning News Tournament of Books (Semifinalist, 2008)

Epigraph

It is not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be a unit;–not to be reckoned one character;–not to yield that particular fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong...
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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First words

We are fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise.

Quotations

"These stupid enduring artifacts–a bar, a song–that stick around after the love has cast his heart into the sea, they are solace and agony both. She is drawn toward them for the promise of renewal, but the main experience is a deepening of the woe."

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0316016381, Hardcover)

This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office signals the arrival of a gloriously talented new writer. The characters in Then We Came to the End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. By day they compete for the best office furniture left behind and try to make sense of the mysterious pro-bono ad campaign that is their only remaining "work."

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