The Typing Lady and other fictions
Language: English
Published by Canongate, London, 2026
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- Hardcover
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Signed first printing, first UK edition of Ozeki’s newest work, a fine linked collection of stories. In very good condition, fantastic gift, with typewriter endpapers, dust jacket etc.
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- Title
- The Typing Lady and other fictions
- Author
- Ruth Ozeki
- Publisher
- Canongate, London
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1837261598
- ISBN 13
- 9781837261598
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 440 grams
- Dimensions
- 14.1 centimeters width by 22 centimeters height by 2.9 centimeters depth
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. 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, 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.
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About the Author
Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the author of four novels including The Book of Form and Emptiness, which won the Women's Prize for Fiction, and A Tale for the Time Being, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and translated into 28 languages. Her nonfiction work includes the short memoir, Timecode of a Face, and the documentary film Halving the Bones. She is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foundation and lives in Western Massachusetts, where she taught creative writing at Smith College and is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor Emerita of Humanities.
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