6.8 /10 1 Votes
Country United States Publication date March 1, 2007 ISBN 978-0-316-01638-4 Publisher Little, Brown and Company | 3.4/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 2006 Genre Novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pages 400 pp (HB 1st edition) Characters Tom Mota, Chris Yopp, Janine Gorjanc, Lynn Mason, Benny Shassburger Awards Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year Similar Joshua Ferris books, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winners, Novels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
Contents
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, The New Yorker, Esquire, and Slate. The book was named one of the Best Books of 2007 by The New York Times.
Time magazine's Lev Grossman named it one of the Top 10 Fiction Books of 2007, ranking it at #2.
The book also won the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel.
References
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