This sounds fantastic! I will have toread it!
Shelley L. Rhodes M.A., VRT, CTVI
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From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 9:52 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Submitted: Then we came to the end
All,
I've just submitted for validation the following novel:
Then we came to teh end, a novel, by Joshua Ferris, 2007, pp 325.
From the book jacket:
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.
Among the coworkers fighting for their jobs and their precious perks: tom
Mota, recently divorced and inexplicably wearing three company polo
shirts,
one on top of the other, every day; Joe Pope, a workaholic and perpetual
victim of office sabotage; Carl Garbedian, whose unchecked depression has
led him to "borrow" Janine Gorjanc's medication and black out his windows;
Chris Yop, suspected of stealing tom Mota's chair; and Marcia Dwyer, with
whom Benny Shassburger is in love, despite her mean streak and badly dated
haircut. As one colleague after another is laid off, everyone strikes
their
best business-as-usual pose, pretending to make headway on the mysterious
pro bono ad campaign that is their only remaining "work." Meanwhile
tempers
flare, office furniture disappears, and the survivors parse their bosses'
decisions in ever-more paranoid sessions at the nearest bar.
***
This is a terrificly funny and smart novel that anyone who has ever worked
in an office -- and who hasn't? -- will enjoy.
Thanks,
Brian Miller
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