![]() ![]() At least those of us who smoked had something to look forward to at ten-fifteen. Louis Post-Dispatch * Time magazine * Salon Read Excerpt With a demon's eye for the details that make life worth noticing, Joshua Ferris tells an emotionally true and funny story about survival in life's strangest environment-the one we pretend is normal five days a week.īoston Globe * Christian Science Monitor * New York Magazine * New York Times Book Review * St. Every office is a family of sorts, and the Chicago ad agency depicted in Joshua Ferris's exuberantly acclaimed first novel is family at its best and worst, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. No one knows us in 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. that rare comedy that feels blisteringly urgent." (TIME) ![]() Winner of the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, this debut novel is "as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler. ![]()
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