Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #397 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-04
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

The Times
Very funny, intense and exhilarating ... For the first time in fiction, it has truly captured the way we work

Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
It's a long time since I've read a novel so painfully funny, or so absurdly true

Sunday Times
Outstanding ... incisive, urgent, funny and snappily written ... The comedy debut of the year

Customer Reviews

boring
Couldnt get into this at all. Didnt think it really told the story of office working. Not very funny and didnt like the 'voice' in which it was written. Unlikeable characters, bitty narrative...Gave up half way through and have already passed it onto an unsuspecting friend...tee hee

If You've Worked in an Ofiice, its about You!
Set in a large American advertising company just after the Tech Stock crash this book draws a fantastic picture of office life. There are few things in life better than a book that makes you laugh out loud, and this one lives up to the hype. At 384 pages its a bit too long, this might be because Ferris spent 7 years writng it, but that is easy to forgive for the poignant wit. Unusually for a first novel the book gets better as it goes along. The second half contains some of the best writing you will find in contemporary American fiction. In places it is almost as good as A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. If you havent read that classic yet you must buy it now!

Like being at work but worse
Not satire just dull. If you work in an office (like I do) you probably have no desire to read about other people moaning about working in an office. Depressing and unfunny.