The Desk - Stevenson, Richard
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Kenneth Dewar is an accountant, so successful over the years that he has become a "venture capitalist" or a "financier" with only one client, a secret one at that, the patrician banker, Ellsworth Dodge. Dewar specializes in "reorganizing" high technology firms, to the immense benefit of Dodge and himself. During the course of his life Dewar had forgotten his wife and daughter. They are there, and they speak to each other and life goes forward - it is just that he has forgotten them. One Sunday afternoon, his wife dies suddenly and unexpectedly while taking a nap, and Kenneth is forced to…mehr

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Kenneth Dewar is an accountant, so successful over the years that he has become a "venture capitalist" or a "financier" with only one client, a secret one at that, the patrician banker, Ellsworth Dodge. Dewar specializes in "reorganizing" high technology firms, to the immense benefit of Dodge and himself. During the course of his life Dewar had forgotten his wife and daughter. They are there, and they speak to each other and life goes forward - it is just that he has forgotten them. One Sunday afternoon, his wife dies suddenly and unexpectedly while taking a nap, and Kenneth is forced to remember her again. He also is forced to look after himself and the apartment and the laundry, and he starts to remember many things about his life that he had forgotten, just as he had forgotten his family. He even tries to make an accounting of his marriage, to draw up a balance sheet. And he finds out some things that he never knew about his wife and about human accounting. It is a moving story of what business does to women and men, set in Boston, Cambridge, and Waltham along Route 128.
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Richard Stevenson (4 March 1952 - 18 October 2023) was a Canadian teacher and poet. Stevenson taught English at Lethbridge College in Lethbridge, Alberta, and also taught for a couple of years in Nigeria. Stevenson held degrees in English and creative writing from the University of Victoria and University of British Columbia. He was also a musician with the young adult group Sasquatch and the jazz/poetry ensemble Naked Ear. Stevenson was an accomplished writer, publishing more than 40 works of poetry, haiku, and fiction, with five titles forthcoming posthumously. A former editor-in-chief of PRISM international, he served in various editorial, jury, and writing and arts group executive capacities over the years. Stevenson's reviews and poems have appeared in hundreds of magazines, anthologies, e-zines, and journals published in Canada, the United States, and overseas. Richard received the following awards during his distinguished literary career: Norma Epstein Award for Creative Writing (co-winner), 1983. Vancouver Literary Storefront Chapbook Award, 1983. Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, for the book, From the Mouths of Angels. The award is bestowed annually by the Writers' Guild of Alberta. ACIFA Excellence in Promoting Student Learning Award, 1996. Pyrowords' Literary Rose Award, 1997.Second Prize, Sketches of Miles Contest, 2001.