| 词条 | Then We Came to the End |
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| name = Then We Came to the End | title_orig = | translator = | image = ThenWeCameToTheEnd.jpg | caption = First US edition with image of Post-it notes | author = Joshua Ferris | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Novel | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | release_date = March 1, 2007 | media_type = Print (Hardback) | pages = 400 pp (HB 1st edition) | isbn = 978-0-316-01638-4 | dewey= 813/.6 22 | congress= PS3606.E774 T47 2007 | oclc= 62679893 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} Then We Came to the End is the first novel by Joshua Ferris. It was released by Little, Brown and Company on March 1, 2007. A satire of the American workplace, it is similar in tone to Don DeLillo's Americana, even borrowing DeLillo's first line for its title. It takes place in a Chicago advertising agency that is experiencing a downturn at the end of the 1990s Internet boom. Ferris employs a first-person-plural narrative. Critical reactionThe book was greeted with positive reviews from GQ,[1] The New Yorker,[2] Esquire,[3] and Slate.[4] The book was named one of the Best Books of 2007 by The New York Times.[5] Time magazine's Lev Grossman named it one of the Top 10 Fiction Books of 2007, ranking it at #2.[6][7]The book also won the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel. References1. ^{{cite magazine |last=Lieberstein |first=Paul |date=March 2007 |title=The Only Business Book You Need This Year |magazine=GQ| volume=77|issue=3 |page=206}} 2. ^"Briefly Noted: Then We Came to the End"; newyorker.com; March 26, 2007. 3. ^{{cite magazine |author= |date=March 2007 |title=The Leisure Meter |magazine=Esquire |volume=147 |issue=3 |page=68}} 4. ^O'Rourke, Meghan; "Hell Is Other Cubicles: Joshua Ferris' new novel about work, the great American pastime."; slate.com; March 8, 2007. 5. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/books/review/10-best-2007.html?_r=1 "The 10 Best Books of 2007"]; The New York Times; December 9, 2007. 6. ^Grossman, Lev; "The 10 Best Fiction Books"; Time magazine; December 24, 2007; Pages 44 - 45. 7. ^Grossman, Lev; Top 10 Fiction Books; time.com External links
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