![]() ![]() 'As dazzling as Franzen's The Corrections and as confident as Tartt's The Secret History. For the first time in fiction, it has truly captured the way we work' The Times Then We Came to the End is about sitting all morning next to someone you cross the road to avoid at lunch. Amidst the boredom, redundancies, water cooler moments, meetings, flirtations and pure rage, life is happening, to their great surprise, all around them. There's Chris Yop, clinging to his ergonomic chair Lynn Mason, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about Carl Garbedian, secretly taking someone else's medication Marcia Dwyer, whose hair is stuck in the eighties and Benny, who's just - well, just Benny. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues. They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End is one of the most acutely observed, dazzling American debuts of recent years. ![]()
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