- Literature, Fiction, Clerks, Humor (Fiction)
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.
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Contemporary, classical in form, intimate and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Joshua Ferris
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- ISIS LARGE PRINT BOOKS, ISIS, Back Bay Books
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English, Dutch, heb
- ISBN
- 9780141035802
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Joshua Ferris's first novel, "Then We Came to the End," won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and was a National Book Award finalist. It has been translated into 24 languages. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Best New American Voices, New Stories from the South, Prairie Schooner, and The Iowa Review. He lives in New York. [Source][1] [1]: http://www.amazon.com/Joshua-Ferris/e/B001H6RSQA/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
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