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The typing lady

Hardcover • 2026 • English

The typing lady: and other fictions

By Ozeki, Ruth L.

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About the book

Exploring childhood ambition, youthful desire, midlife reinvention and the unsparing clarity of old age, Ozeki brings us eleven richly imagined stories of characters standing at life's thresholds.A college student falls for her professor and learns to transmute longing into language. A disquieted husband watches as the ghost of his wife's ambition roams the woods outside their home. A long-deceased Beat poet hijacks the mind of a young publishing assistant and rails against the state of modern l...Show more

Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Narrative theme: Identity / belonging
Fiction: special features: ranobe (‘light novels’)

Book details

ISBN

9781837261598

Publisher

Canongate

Published year

2026

Language

English

Original title

The typing lady

Format

Hardcover

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