Equal Distance

by Brad Leithauser

Danny Ott, 23, on leave from Harvard Law School and a Wall-Street-firm internship, goes to Kyoto, Japan--to do research with a Japanese law professor. But Kyoto is bewildering Danny feels lucky when he happens two American trust funders who guide him through the chaos. Offbeat tastes and knowledgeable angles on Kyoto that prove to be very entertaining to the more stolid Danny.

Genres: Japan, Fiction

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

BRAD LEITHAUSER is a widely acclaimed poet and novelist and the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship. This is his seventeenth book. He is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and divides his time between Baltimore and Amherst.

Reviews

[Donna · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not so much. Disappointed after the last one of his I read.