Name: The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions (en Inglés)
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Author: Ruth Ozeki
ISBN: 9780593832714

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The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Penguin

Autor

Ruth Ozeki

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

336

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

21.082 x 13.97 x 2.032 cm

ISBN13

9780593832714

The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions (en Inglés)"

A spellbinding story collection from Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki, about the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite forget, and the stories that shape us long after the last page is turned

In this spirited and emotionally resonant collection, award-winning novelist Ruth Ozeki turns her singular gaze to the short story, exploring childhood ambition, youthful desire, midlife reinvention, and the unsparing clarity of old age. With her distinctive blend of wit, warmth, and deep humanity, she brings us eleven richly imagined stories of characters standing at life’s thresholds—grappling with faded ideals, evolving identities, and the inevitable compromises that shape a life.

A college student falls for her professor and learns to transmute longing into language. A disquieted husband watches with tenderness and unease 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 during a sales meeting, railing against the state of modern literature. A curious grandmother creates a fake online dating profile to spy on her granddaughter’s romantic life—and sets in motion a deception she can’t control.

Spanning eras and geographies—from a New England college town in the 1970s to downtown Manhattan in the 1990s to a moss-covered Pacific Northwest island during the early pandemic—The Typing Lady is an electrifying meditation on the stories we tell ourselves, the stories we abandon, and the stories we become. Threaded with the tactile ephemera of writing—typewriters, letters, manuscripts, and disappearing ink—the book reveals how we record ourselves in language, and how language, over time, records us in return.