Book description
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.
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
.
