Typing Lady and other fictions - Ruth Ozeki

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 literature.... Zobrazit více