Personal Days

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• Personal Days

  In a New York office an unnamed narrator and his co-workers (whose names all begin with the letters J, K and L - coincidentally the point in the alphabet that the increasingly frequent staff culls have reached) labour at unspecified tasks for an anon ... (read full critics)

  dailymail published on Tue, 21 Sep 2010

• Cubicle Rats

  When the Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno said that “work is the only practical consolation for having been born,” he could not have foreseen the lot of the 21st-century cubicle drones who populate Ed Park’s witty and appealing first novel, “Per ... (read full critics)

  nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

2 Reviews

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  If you liked Coupland's Microserfs and/or Jpod, you'll like this.

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  MrsFidelius said on Nov 26, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  I'm finding this very much the same as Ferris' "Then We Came to the End" - just not quite as witty. The characters all seem to meld into one person- but, I guess that may be the point, I'll have to finish it.

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  MyHotelYears said on Oct 29, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 256 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0812978579
• ISBN-13: 9780812978575
• Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
• Pub date: May 13, 2008
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover and eBook

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