{"product_id":"then-we-came-to-the-end","title":"Then We Came To The End","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA HILARIOUS SATIRE THAT SHOWS OFFICE DYNAMICS AT THEIR MOST PETTY AND PROFOUND FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR, JOSHUA FERRIS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere''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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThen We Came to the End\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Joshua Ferris'' mind-blowing new book, \u003ci\u003eA Calling for Charlie Barnes, \u003c\/i\u003eis available to pre-order now.*\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Very funny, intense and exhilarating . . . For the first time in fiction, it has truly captured the way we work'' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''As dazzling as Franzen''s The Corrections and as confident as Tartt''s \u003ci\u003eThe Secret History\u003c\/i\u003e . . . Exceptional, very funny'' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Slick, sophisticated and very funny, Ferris''s cracking debut has modern Everyman fighting for his identity in an increasingly impersonal world'' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57321108341118,"sku":"NW9780141027630","price":9.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141027630.jpg?v=1778234596","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/then-we-came-to-the-end","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}