Personal Days

The official blog for the novel 'Personal Days' by Ed Park

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Yo, Big Sal!

More insane key phrases from PD's Amazon page:


Original Jack, The Jilliad, Big Sal, Personal Daze, Pru Lizzie, Sporting Proposition, Half Asian British Accent Woman, New York, Percival Davis, New Jersey
Posted by Ed at 12:07 AM

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  • A "comic and creepy début...Park transforms the banal into the eerie." —The New Yorker
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