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Ed Park was born in 1970 in Buffalo, New York. He is a founding editor of The Believer and the former editor Voice Literary Supplement. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere. He lives with his family in Manhattan, where he publishes The New York Ghost.As much a novel of pitch-perfect comic vignettes of working life, <i>Personal Days</i> is the ideal book to read under the table during the next staff training seminar. Park has strayed into Ricky Gervais' territory and may soon be its king
Observer
The funniest novel of office life in decades... A must-read
Daily Mail
Anyone missing Joshua Ferris' <i>Then We Came To The End</i> should pick up this novel
Esquire
Park's wry look at lives ruled by unreliable computers and bad coffee speaks volumes about the choices we make in the name of ambition
The Times
<i>Personal Days</i> is amusingly spare, yet soon becomes something darker, aspiring perhaps to the unblinking horror of Joseph Heller's corporate schlub epic <i>Something Happened</i>
The List
I laughed until they put me in a mental hospital. But <i>Personal Days</i> is so much more than satire. Underneath Park's masterly portrait of wasted workaday lives is a pulsating heart, and an odd, buoyant hope
- Gary Shteyngart,
The narrative, a DeLillo-like, pellet - sized series of vignettes, rings true in its evocation of the paranoid weirdness of office life
Arena
A comic and creepy debut novel...Park transforms the banal into the eerie
New Yorker
sketches so expertly; if you like this genre, he gets the tone just right
- William Leith, Evening Standard
Park's eye for the minutiae of office life is sharp... This is as funny as Seinfeld
- Brandon Robshaw, The Independent on Sunday
Ever wondered what your boss does all day?Or if there is a higher - perhaps an existential - significance to Microsoft Word malfunctions?
Filled with sabotage and romance and capturing the relentless monotony and paranoia of office life with unnerving precision, Personal Days is a scathingly funny look at a group of office workers who have no idea what the unnamed corporation they work for actually does. When it looks like the company may be taken over, fear of redundancy unleashes a delicious mystery.
Meet Pru, the ex-graduate turned spreadsheet drone; Laars, the hysteric whose work anxiety follows him into tooth-grinding dreams; and Jonah, the secret striver who must pick his allegiance... Each struggling to figure out who among them is trying to bring down the company, and why.