· Hilary Leichter. Eighteen boyfriends, twenty-three jobs, and one ghost who occasionally pops in to give advice: Temporary casts a hilarious and tender eye toward the struggle for happiness under late capitalism. In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her . · by Josie Tolin. Hilary Leichter has crafted a workplace parable in her debut novel, Temporary (Coffee House Press), which follows a young, unnamed woman’s search for permanent employment, a mode of being she calls “the steadiness.”. In the process, she pursues more than twenty different jobs, many of which are listed in “Onboarding,” the opening chapter. Hilary Leichter is author of the novel Temporary. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the New Yorker, Harper's, n+1, Bookforum, Conjunctions, the Cut, and American Short Fiction. She teaches at Columbia University.4/5().
Temporary (Emily Books) - Kindle edition by Leichter, Hilary. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Temporary (Emily Books). The following is an excerpt from Hilary Leichter's new novel Temporary, a story of the familiar quest for happiness under late www.doorway.ru Leichter's writing has appeared in n+1, the New Yorker, the Cut, the Southern Review, and www.doorway.ru has taught fiction at Columbia University and has been awarded fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library and the New York Foundation for. Oh, Should-Heads! If you haven't read Temporary, you are doing yourself a real disservice. It's clever and funny, but don't take our word for it. It's also r.
A novel by Hilary Leichter March 3, • x • pages • Eighteen boyfriends, twenty-three jobs, and one ghost who occasionally pops in to give advice: Temporary casts a hilarious and tender eye toward the struggle for happiness under late capitalism. Hilary Leichter possesses the brute force of language and imagination to create ultra-vivid worlds, suffused with an eerie weirdo beauty. It is Leichter's brilliance that these invented worlds reflect so directly, blindingly, on the secret, mythical workings of our own." —Ben Marcus. " Temporary took me by storm. In “Temporary,” a brisk, wildly imaginative first novel by Hilary Leichter, the unnamed protagonist is a temp worker who trudges between 23 jobs. “I have a shorthand kind of career,” she.
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