Temporary

ISBN-13: 9780571363865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str.

Hilary Leichter

Opis

Aided by her bespoke agency and a cast of boyfriends - each allotted their own task (the handy boyfriend, the culinary boyfriend, the real estate boyfriend) - she is happy to fill in for any of us: for the Chairman of the Board, a ghost, a murderer, a mother.

Recenzje

A brisk, wildly imaginative first novel. you can hear an old note in American fiction. [the] violent, surreal, often cartoonish scenarios delivered deadpan that draw attention to the freakishness of ordinary life - from writers like Donald Barthelme, Gordon Lish, Ben Marcus. Crisp, swift and sardonic, Temporary reads like a comic and mournful Alice in Wonderland set in the gig economy, an eerily precise portrait of ourselves in a cracked mirror. New York Times

O autorze

Hilary Leichter has been published in the New York Times, n+1, the New Yorker, the Cut, and Conjunctions. She teaches writing at Columbia University and has been awarded fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library and the New York Foundation for the Arts.