Winter 2006

Escape of a Salary Man

by Benjamin Cheever

A MAN WITH
NO TALENTS:
Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer.
By Oyama Shiro. Translated by Edward Fowler.
Cornell Univ. Press.
139 pp. $21


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  • Benjamin Cheever, the author of the memoir Selling Ben Cheever: Back to Square One in a Service Economy (2001), as well as The Good Nanny (2004) and three other novels, is writing a book about running.

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