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In 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. 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?” “If P. G. Wodehouse worked in a modern-day office, he might have written this hilarious book.” –Vendela Vida, author of Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name “The funniest book I’ve read about the way we work now.” –William Poundstone, author of Fortune’s Formula “With Personal Days Ed Park joins Andy Warhol and Don DeLillo as a master of the deadpan vernacular.” –Helen DeWitt, author of The Last Samurai “The ideal read for anyone who has ever felt possessive about a stapler, confused by their boss’s behavior, or suspicious of the stranger who works two cubicles down.” ——Amanda Filipacchi, author of Love Creeps

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as you can imagine, i have extreme biases, so i'll keep this one short. this book is about working in an office. it is really great, really funny. i feel for ed that ferris got the jump on him, because the ferris book is just g...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 08:12:54 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 15:41:50 -0700 2008 The Office meets Kafka. Set in an unnamed company in Manhattan, recently taken over by another company run by faceless Californians, it is a collection of loosely connected anecdotes and observations that captures the absurdity, paranoia, and angst of white-collar wage...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 20:34:50 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 20:44:02 -0700 2008
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People in my bookgroup say its a decent portratyal of the corporate world. Really dead on for some people for their office. Which makes me happy. Very cheering.

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