Joshua Ferris's first novel, Then We Came to the End, won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and was a National Book Award finalist. It has been translated into 24 languages. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Best New American Voices, New Stories from the South, Prairie Schooner, and The Iowa Review. He lives in New York.
"A terrific first novel . . . awfully funny."--Nick Hornby, The
Believer
"Ferris brilliantly captures the fishbowl quality of contemporary
office life, where nothing much happens and the smallest events
take on huge significance. . . . The narration (done in the
technically challenging first-person collective) never falters,
making this a masterwork of pitch and tone, in which individual
characters are less important than the general mood of boredom
leavened with camaraderie." --The New Yorker
"Hilarious in a Catch-22 way, but with an undercurrent of sadness
that works counterpoint to all the absurdity."--Stephen King, New
York Times Book Review
"Mr. Ferris has our number. He smells our fear, our vulnerability.
. . . His observations are often ticklish, making the book feel
like the one we have rattling in our heads." --Emily Bobrow, New
York Observer
"We in office world know these people. We work with them. But
Joshua Ferris, in his virtuoso first novel, makes us see them. He
writes in a conspiratorial tone of such delicious knowingness that
I read Then We Came to the End with a great grin on my face. By
turns hip, wicked, and incisive, the novel plumbs the nuances of
office humiliation, soaring entitlement, goofy pranks, busy-making
maneuvers, low-grade venality, and ever-present schadenfreude. . .
. You won't want to miss it."--Karen Long, Cleveland Plain Dealer
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