Subject: About Personal Days
Sender: Pru [pruzoo102@yahoo.com]

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NY TIMES REVIEWS “PERSONAL DAYS”...PLUS: A WILD NEW STORY FROM ED AT L MAGAZINE

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Someone just told me about this new novel by Ed Park, Personal Days...a little too close for comfort but of course I'm going to buy it anyway. The New York Times says it “may serve as a handy guide for navigating unemployment and uncertainty.” Newsweek calls it “a lyrical and often piercing look at daily life,” and over in England, the Observer says it's “the ideal book to read under the table during the next staff training seminar.” Hmm! Laars should do it for his book club. (The L.A. Times compares Park to Vonnegut—doesn't Laars heart Vonnegut?) Maybe we should hear Ed read when he's in town? Here's more about the book:

In an unnamed New York-based company, the employees are getting restless as everything around them unravels. There’s Pru [whaaa???], 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. On a Sunday, one of them is called at home. And the Firings begin. Rich 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?”

xpru

PS Did you send me this logo thingy?

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