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It is a brave author who embeds the rationale for writing his novel into the novel itself. But 70 pages into Joshua Ferris’s first novel, set in a white-collar office, we meet Hank Neary, an advertising copywriter writing his first novel, set in a white-collar office. Ferris has the good sense to make Neary’s earnest project seem slightly ridiculous. Neary describes his book as “small and angry.” His co-workers tactfully suggest more appealing topics. He rejects them. “The fact that we spend most of our lives at work, that interests me,” he says. “A small, angry book about work,” his colleagues think. “There was a fun read on the beach.” “Then We Came to the End,” it turns out, is neither small nor angry, but expansive, great-hearted and acidly funny. It is set at the turn of the current century, when the implosion of the dot-com economy is claiming collateral victims down the fluorescent-paneled halls of a Chicago advertising firm. Clients are fleeing, projects are drying up and management is chucking human ballast from the listing corporate balloon. The layoffs come piecemeal, without warning and — in keeping with good, brutal, heinie-covering legal practice — with no rationale as to why any person was let go. . . . Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
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HTML:This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office signals the arrival of a gloriously talented writer. The characters in Then We Came to the End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. By day they compete for the best office furniture left behind and try to make sense of the mysterious pro-bono ad campaign that is their only remaining "work.". Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Protagonisti di questa storia sono alcuni impiegati di un'agenzia pubblicitaria di Chicago. Lynn, Tom, Hank, Karen, Jim, Janine. Le loro vite, le loro storie, i loro drammi. Il prologo è entusiasmante, poi calma piatta. Si fa fatica a ricordare tutti i nomi, e poi si fa fatica a comprendere tutto....! Non me ne voglia chi lo ha amato tanto ma io l'ho trovato veramente noioso e faticoso. Ho apprezzato lo stile narrativo di Ferris e l'idea di usare la prima persona plurale per enfatizzare l'idea del gruppo, ma per il resto la storia non mi ha lasciato veramente niente.
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