A01=Lore Segal
acclaimed US author
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author of Ladies' Lunch
author of Other People's Houses
author of Other People’s Houses
Author_Lore Segal
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fiction set in 1970s
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Lore Segal
New Yorker writer
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perfect summer reading
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Pulitzer finalist
refugee literature
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Product details
- ISBN 9781914502101
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jul 2024
- Publisher: Sort of Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Ilka Weisz is in need not just of friends but 'elective cousins'. She has left her home in New York to accept a junior teaching post at the prestigious Concordance Institute, a liberal college in bucolic Connecticut. But how can she, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, find a new set to belong to - a surrogate family? Might the Shakespeares - the institute's director and his wry, acerbic wife - hold the key?
In these interlinked New Yorker stories, Lore Segal evokes the comic melancholy of the outsider and the ineffectual ambitions of a progressive, predominantly WASP-ish institution. Tragedy and loss haunt characters as they plan an academic symposium on genocide, while their privileged lives contrast starkly with those on a derelict housing project next door.
Includes the acclaimed New Yorker podcast story, "The Reverse Bug".
Lore Segal (1928 - 2024) was born in Vienna and escaped to England age ten on the Kindertransport. She moved to the USA in 1951 and has been contributing stories to the New Yorker for over sixty years. At age 95, she was elected to the US Academy of Arts and Letters. Sort Of publish three of her novels; Other People's Houses, Ladies' Lunch and An Absence of Cousins.
