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Then We Came to the End
By Joshua Ferris
Little, Brown, 387 pages, $23.99
Set in a Chicago advertising agency in the midst of a downturn, this is Studs Terkel’s “Working” updated with a glossy, white-collar twist, explored with warmth, irony and humor. The book’s narrative voice, our reviewer wrote, “has the gossipy warmth and seeming closeness of a conspiratorial co-worker leaning over a partition to impart the latest rumor.” In this astonishing first novel, Joshua Ferris makes cubicle culture a charming — and funny — story of dysfunctional family relationships.
