Pre-Owned Then We Came to the End (Paperback) 0316473782 9780316473781

The National Book Award finalist and debut novel by the bestselling author of The Dinner Party "A readymade classic of the office-novel genre. . . . A truly affecting novel about work, trust, love, and loneliness." -- Seattle Times 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. With a demon's eye for the details that make life worth noticing, Joshua Ferris tells a true and funny story about survival in life's strangest environment--the one we pretend is normal five days a week.