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Then We Came to the End

978-0-316-01638-4OCLC62679893

Dewey Decimal

813/.6 22LC ClassPS3606.E774 T47 2007

2007 novel by Joshua Ferris

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.

Critical reaction

The book was greeted with positive reviews from GQ,^[1] The New York Times,^[2]The New Yorker,^[3] Esquire,^[4] and Slate.^[5] The book was named one of the Best Books of 2007 by The New York Times.^[6]

Time magazine's Lev Grossman named it one of the Top 10 Fiction Books of 2007, ranking it at #2.^[7]

The book won the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel^{[citation needed]} and the 2007 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award.^[8]^[9]

References

^ Lieberstein, Paul (March 2007). "The Only Business Book You Need This Year". GQ. Vol. 77, no. 3. p. 206.
^ Poniewozik, James (March 18, 2007). "Pink Slip Blues". The New York Times.
^ "Briefly Noted: Then We Came to the End"; newyorker.com; March 26, 2007.
^ "The Leisure Meter". Esquire. Vol. 147, no. 3. March 2007. p. 68.
^ O'Rourke, Meghan (March 8, 2007). "Hell Is Other Cubicles: Joshua Ferris' new novel about work, the great American pastime". slate.com. Slate.
^ "The 10 Best Books of 2007"; The New York Times; December 9, 2007.
^ Grossman, Lev (December 24, 2007). "The 10 Best Fiction Books". Time. pp. 44–45. Archived from the original on 2007-12-12.
^ "Kate Braestrup and Joshua Ferris Win Barnes & Noble Discover Prize". Publishers Weekly. 2008-02-28. Archived from the original on 2024-04-23. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
^ "Jean Valentine, Junot Díaz Among Finalists for Los Angeles Times Book Prizes". Poets & Writers. 2008-03-05. Archived from the original on September 19, 2020. Retrieved 2024-04-23.