Reviews
"A masterwork of pitch and tone. . . . Ferris brilliantly captures the fishbowl quality of contemporary office life." -- The New Yorker, Not too many authors have written the Great American Office Novel. Joseph Heller did it inSomething Happened(the one book of his to rivalCatch-22). And Nicholson Baker pulled it off in zanily fastidious fashion inThe Mezzanine.To their ranks should be added Joshua Ferris, whose THEN WE CAME TO THE END feels like a readymade classic of the genre. . . . A truly affecting novel about work, trust, love, and loneliness., A masterwork of pitch and tone. . . . Ferris brilliantly captures the fishbowl quality of contemporary office life., "What looks at first glance like a sweet-tempered satire of workplace culture is revealed upon closer inspection to be a very serious novel about, well, America. It may even be, in its own modest way, a great American novel." -- Los Angeles Times, "A masterwork of pitch and tone. . . . Ferris brilliantly captures the fishbowl quality of contemporary office life."-- The New Yorker, "What looks at first glancelike a sweet-tempered satire of workplace culture is revealed upon closerinspection to be a very serious novel about, well, America. It may even be, inits own modest way, a great American novel." -- Los Angeles Times, Not too many authors have written the Great American Office Novel. Joseph Heller did it in Something Happened (the one book of his to rival Catch-22 ). And Nicholson Baker pulled it off in zanily fastidious fashion in The Mezzanine. To their ranks should be added Joshua Ferris, whose THEN WE CAME TO THE END feels like a readymade classic of the genre. . . . A truly affecting novel about work, trust, love, and loneliness., What looks at first glancelike a sweet-tempered satire of workplace culture is revealed upon closerinspection to be a very serious novel about, well, America. It may even be, inits own modest way, a great American novel., "Not too many authors have written the Great American Office Novel. Joseph Heller did it in Something Happened (the one book of his to rival Catch-22 ). And Nicholson Baker pulled it off in zanily fastidious fashion in The Mezzanine. To their ranks should be added Joshua Ferris, whose THEN WE CAME TO THE END feels like a readymade classic of the genre. . . . A truly affecting novel about work, trust, love, and loneliness."-- Michael Upchurch , Seattle Times, "Not too many authors have written the Great American Office Novel. Joseph Heller did it in "Something Happened" (the one book of his to rival "Catch-22"). And Nicholson Baker pulled it off in zanily fastidious fashion in "The Mezzanine." To their ranks should be added Joshua Ferris, whose THEN WE CAME TO THE END feels like a readymade classic of the genre. . . . A truly affecting novel about work, trust, love, and loneliness." -- Seattle Times "Michael Upchurch", "What looks at first glance like a sweet-tempered satire of workplace culture is revealed upon closer inspection to be a very serious novel about, well, America. It may even be, in its own modest way, a great American novel."-- Los Angeles Times, What looks at first glancelike a sweet-tempered satire of workplace culture is revealed upon closer inspection to be a very serious novel about, well, America. It may even be, in its own modest way, a great American novel.
