{"product_id":"personal-days-paperback","title":"Personal Days - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEd Park\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an unnamed New York-based company, the employees are getting restless as everything around them unravels. There's Pru, the former grad student turned spreadsheet drone; Laars, the hysteric whose work anxiety stalks him in his tooth-grinding dreams; and Jack II, who distributes unwanted backrubs-aka \"jackrubs\"-to his co-workers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a Sunday, one of them is called at home. And the Firings begin.\u003cbr\u003eRich with Orwellian doublespeak, filled with sabotage and romance, this astonishing literary debut is at once a comic delight and a narrative tour de force. It's a novel for anyone who has ever worked in an office and wondered: \"Where does the time go? Where does the life go? And whose banana is in the fridge?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePraise for PERSONAL DAYS\u003cbr\u003e\"Witty and appealing...Anyone who has ever groaned to hear 'impact' used as a verb will cheer as Park skewers the avatars of corporate speak, hellbent on debasing the language....Park has written what one of his characters calls 'a layoff narrative' for our times. As the economy continues its free fall, Park's book may serve as a handy guide for navigating unemployment and uncertainty. Does anyone who isn't a journalist think there can't be two books on the same subject at the same time? We need as many as we can get right now.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Never have the minutiae of office life been so lovingly cataloged and collated.\" --\"Three First Novels that Just Might Last,\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \"comic and creepy d but...Park transforms the banal into the eerie, rendering ominous the familiar request \"Does anyone want anything from the outside world?\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"The modern corporate office is to Ed Park's debut novel \u003ci\u003ePersonal Days\u003c\/i\u003e what World War II was to Joseph Heller's \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e--a theater of absurdity and injustice so profound as to defy all reason....Park may be in line to fill the shoes left by Kurt Vonnegut and other satirists par excellence.\"\u003cb\u003e--Samantha Dunn, \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003ePersonal Days\u003c\/i\u003e Ed Park has crafted a sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, but always adroit novel about office life...Sharp and lovely language.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A warm and winning fiction debut.\" \u003cb\u003e-- \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I laughed until they put me in a mental hospital. But \u003ci\u003ePersonal Days\u003c\/i\u003e is so much more than satire. Underneath Park's masterly portrait of wasted workaday lives is a pulsating heart, and an odd, buoyant hope.\" \u003cb\u003e-- Gary Shteyngart, author of \u003ci\u003eAbsurdistan \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The funniest book I've read about the way we work now.\" \u003cb\u003e-William Poundstone, author of \u003ci\u003eFortune's Formula\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ed Park joins Andy Warhol and Don DeLillo as a master of the deadpan vernacular.\" \u003cb\u003e--Helen DeWitt, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Samurai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEd Park is a founding editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e and a former editor of the \u003ci\u003eVoice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eand many other publications. He lives in Manhattan, where he publishes \u003ci\u003eThe New-York Ghost.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 7.99 x 5.17 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hemingway Foundation\/PEN Award (2009)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize (2008)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44342945251430,"sku":"9780812978575","price":29.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/B0ddm2NU5r9780812978575.webp?v=1768625451","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/personal-days-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}