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''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 reaction== The book was greeted with positive reviews from ''GQ'', ''The New Yorker'',〔("Briefly Noted: Then We Came to the End"; newyorker.com; March 26, 2007. )〕 ''Esquire'', and ''Slate''.〔(O'Rourke, Meghan; "Hell Is Other Cubicles: Joshua Ferris' new novel about work, the great American pastime."; slate.com; March 8, 2007. )〕 The book was named one of the Best Books of 2007 by ''The New York Times''.〔("The 10 Best Books of 2007" ); ''The New York Times''; December 9, 2007.〕 ''Time'' magazine's Lev Grossman named it one of the Top 10 Fiction Books of 2007, ranking it at #2.〔Grossman, Lev; "The 10 Best Fiction Books"; ''Time'' magazine; December 24, 2007; Pages 44 - 45.〕〔(Grossman, Lev; Top 10 Fiction Books; time.com )〕 The book also won the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Then We Came to the End」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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