Then We Came to the End

de
Neniu kovrilo

Then We Came to the End (EBook, 2010, Penguin Group UK)

Bitlibro

Lingvo: English

Eldonita je 25-a de decembro 2010 de Penguin Group UK.

ISBN:
978-0-14-191762-7
Kopiis la ISBN!

Vidi ĉe OpenLibrary

3 steloj (1 recenzo)

Then We Came to the End is your life and my life. It is how we spend our days and too many of our nights. It is about being away from friends and family, about sharing a stretch of stained tiled carpet with a group of strangers we call colleagues. It is about sitting all morning next to someone you deliberately cross the road to avoid at lunchtime.Joshua Ferris's brilliant first novel follows a group of white-collar workers as they struggle to go about their lives amidst the constant fear of who will be next to 'walk Spanish down the hall'.

6 eldonoj

recenzis Then We Came to the End de Joshua Ferris

Good premise, but overlong for the idea

3 steloj

A good start to this novel which details the everyday lives of a group of office workers in America. The situation is pretty much the same as happens in the UK - lots of chat and little work, rumours magnified and gossip spread, one upmanship and practical jokes - so I was easily able to identify with the book. However, once we come to know these people, not much else really developed to keep my attention and I found myself not caring about their fates. There are two big set pieces which I won't give away, but these events seemed two-dimensional and unreal. I think this book could have been an excellent novella, but in stretching its idea to a full novel, the potential 'magic' is too diluted to maintain interest.