{"product_id":"then-we-came-to-the-end","title":"Then We Came to the End","description":"\u003cp\u003eA HILARIOUS SATIRE THAT SHOWS OFFICE DYNAMICS AT THEIR MOST PETTY AND PROFOUND FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR, JOSHUA FERRIS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e*Joshua Ferris' mind-blowing new book, A Calling for Charlie Barnes, is available to pre-order now.*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Very funny, intense and exhilarating . . . For the first time in fiction, it has truly captured the way we work' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'As dazzling as Franzen's The Corrections and as confident as Tartt's The Secret History . . . Exceptional, very funny' Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Slick, sophisticated and very funny, Ferris's cracking debut has modern Everyman fighting for his identity in an increasingly impersonal world' Daily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45637341544627,"sku":"9780141027630","price":559.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/91GgBMMy9zL.jpg?v=1783076435","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/then-we-came-to-the-end","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}