Skip to product information
1 of 1

Then We Came to the End

Then We Came to the End

Paperback

Regular price £8.51
Regular price Sale price £8.51

Join our rewards scheme and earn 27 reward points on this purchase!

Earn 27 points on this!

Sign in or Sign up!
View full details
  • Release Date: 04/01/2008
  • Barcode: 9780141027630
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House
Then We Came to the End

Then We Came to the End

Collapsible content

DESCRIPTION

They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues. There's Chris Yop, clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn Mason, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about.

A HILARIOUS SATIRE THAT SHOWS OFFICE DYNAMICS AT THEIR MOST PETTY AND PROFOUND FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR, JOSHUA FERRIS

They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues.

There's Chris, clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about; Carl, secretly taking someone else's medication; Marcia, whose hair is stuck in the eighties; and Benny, who's just - well, just Benny. Amidst the boredom, redundancies, water cooler moments, meetings, flirtations and pure rage, life is happening, to their great surprise, all around them.

Then We Came to the End is about sitting all morning next to someone you cross the road to avoid at lunch. It's the story of your life and mine.

'Very funny, intense and exhilarating . For the first time in fiction, it has truly captured the way we work' The Times

'As dazzling as Franzen's The Corrections and as confident as Tartt's The Secret History . Exceptional, very funny' Daily Telegraph

'Slick, sophisticated and very funny, Ferris's cracking debut has modern Everyman fighting for his identity in an increasingly impersonal world' Daily Mail



DELIVERY & RETURNS

UK Delivery:

  • Free delivery on all orders of £10 or more.
  • £1.49 delivery fee on orders below £10.
  • UK orders are shipped via Royal Mail 2nd Class.

International Delivery:

  • Flat rate delivery charges vary by country.

Dispatch and Delivery Times:

  • All orders are shipped from our warehouse in Northampton, UK within 48 hours of receipt during working hours.
  • UK mainland orders typically arrive within 3-5 working days via Royal Mail 2nd Class.
  • International estimated delivery times:
  • Europe & Channel Islands: 7 to 10 working days
  • USA: 7 to 15 working days
  • Rest of the World: 9 to 21 working days

View our full delivery infomation here.

  • OVER

    2 MILLION PRODUCTS

  • 60 MILLION CUSTOMERS

    ACROSS 190 COUNTRIES