Hard Copy: A Story of Girl Meets Printer
'Many astute observations about loneliness [and] class attitudes... very funny on the tedium of office life.' Irish Independent
'Joyful, tender, and strangely relatable . . . With sharp, playful prose, Veldman tells a story in equal parts searing intelligence and madcap sweetness. Simply brilliant.' Jenny Mustard
This is a story of girl meets printer.
A customer service assistant spends her long workdays printing letters. Her one friend is the printer and, in the dark confines of her office, she begins to open up to him, talking about her fears, her past, her hopes and dreams.
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"Despite its whimsical premise, Hard Copy is at its heart a joyful, tender, and strangely relatable novel. With sharp, playful prose Veldman tells a story in equal parts searing intelligence and madcap sweetness. Simply brilliant." --Jenny Mustard, author of Okay Days
"This novel has it all. It's smart, captivating, poignant, absurd, moving, and terribly funny." --Jente Posthuma, author of What I'd Rather Not Think About "Intimate and surprising at every turn, Hard Copy's distinct narrative voice took me right in from page one. A truly one-of-a-kind novel: I loved it. " --Sarah Maria Griffin, author of Other Words for Smoke "Rounded with sharp observations and surprising humour, Hard Copy is an incisive commentary on social isolation - a young woman's desperate search for connection in these late-capitalist times. " --Anindita Ghose, author of The Illuminated "Many astute observations about loneliness [and] class attitudes... very funny on the tedium of office life." --Irish Independent "A talented new voice worth paying attention to." --Irish Times "Dryly comic... You regularly wonder who is more disturbed here, the protagonist or society." --Het Parool "A weird, understated and very well written book about a millennial meltdown" --Havermelkelite "A beautiful, at times absurdist and moving debut" --Boekblad "In clear, bright language, Fien Veldman accurately depicts a world, a social background, that eats its way through the individual... A novel like an autopsy." --Manon Uphoff "Absurdist and inventive. Fien Veldman knows how to deal with contemporary cultural phenomena, and she always approaches them astutely and surprisingly'" --Tzum "Wondrous" --Noordhollands Dagblad "A beautiful book" --Friesch Dagblad "This book is so fun to read, you almost forget to notice how stuffed to the brim it is with pointed commentary." --Musing: a Blog by Parnassus Books "Hard Copy is a wonderfully entertaining novel about the struggle to build relationships when one's formative years have already warped their foundation. In a world where machines steadily replace human labour, Veldman explores the search for connections that may not exist and a new, hopefully better reality... bizarre yet poignant" --Daily Dispatch
