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The 2009 Award

 

Then We Came to an End

Then We Came to the End

by Joshua Ferris

 

Nominated by:

  • Kansas City Public Library, USA.

Publisher of Nominated Edition:

Little Brown & Co.

 

the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors
ABOUT THE BOOK

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.


(From Publisher).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Joshua Ferris lives with his wife in Brooklyn, where he is at work on his second novel.

LIBRARIANS' COMMENTS

A thoroughly hilarious and tragic novel about the effects of American corporate culture on it cubicle dwelling inhabitants. Prescient and terrifying in its honesty.


 

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