Temporary

Temporary
Hilary Leichter
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Trade Paperback
h216 x 135mm - 256pg
18 Feb 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780571363865
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Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction' s 2020 First Novel Prize18 boyfriends. 23 jobs. One ghost who occasionally pops in to give advice. Welcome to the world of the Temporary. ' There is nothing more personal than doing your job' . So goes the motto of the Temporary, as she takes job after job, in search of steadiness, belonging, and something to call her own. 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. Even for you, and for me. Wild, hopeful, infinitely sad and infinitely funny, Temporary is the smartest, most humane story of what it is to work and live, here and now. ' A narrative so deliciously allusive and disarmingly literal that this reader kept thinking maximum glee had been attained, only for the glee to somehow grow even more maximal just a few sentences later. ' - Helen Oyeyemi
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.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780571363865
Published: 18 Feb 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 267g
Pages: 256

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