Then We Came to the End

入选《纽约时报》2007年度十大好书

“在菲利斯尖刻、有趣的处女作中，辞退通知满天飞，背景是网络泡沫破灭时芝加哥一家广告公司的办公室。”小说以公司职员的第一人称复数“我们”来讲述故事，充分地传达出集体的急躁、唠叨、小气和热心。“我们脾气不好，薪水过高。世界上充斥着互联网资金，我们只是拿到我们应得的一份。我们认为标识设计跟产品性能和分销体系一样重要。酷毙了说的是我们的设计，小儿科说的是别的公司的设计——如果他们真的设计得很好，我们就会向它鞠躬，就像玛雅人向他们的神灵鞠躬一样。”菲利斯的同事们会用微小的、荒谬的反叛来寻开心。比如一位嘴巴闲不住的家伙，决定一天内说话时全引用《教父》里的台词。当一位助理问他对一个项目的意见时，他回答说：“只此一次，这次我让你问我的公事。”

内容简介
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; Carl Garbedian, secretly taking someone else's medication; Marcia Dwyer, 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.

媒体推荐
Outstanding, hugely satisfying, exceptionally well-executed ... An incisive, urgent, funny and snappily written novel Sunday Times Magazine As impressively confident as Donna Tartt's The Secret History and as technically dazzling as Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections ... Exceptional, funny, radical Telegraph Brilliant, funny, stomach-turningly accurate Observer

作者简介
Joshua Ferris was born in Chicago in 1975. He attended Iowa University and then worked in an advertising agency for four years. He now lives in Brooklyn, NY.

基本信息
平装: 399页
语种： 英语
ISBN: 0141027630
条形码: 9780141027630
商品尺寸: 12.9 x 2.4 x 19.8 cm
ASIN: 0141027630