Ladies' Lunch: And Other Stories - Paperback
by Lore Segal
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Melville House PublishingISBN-13:9781685891015ISBN-10:1685891012UPC:9781685891015Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Humorous, Jewish, WomenBook Topic:Black HumorSize:8.27 x 5.58 x 0.19 inchesWeight:0.33Product ID:SCQPHNXJTH
National Jewish Book Award Finalist The New Yorker's Best Book of the Year! "Segal writes with welcome clarity about life's final years, and if her characters are not always as wise as they think they are, Segal eyes them all with the unsentimental wisdom of a life spent writing wondrous stories and essays, a career spent telling the truth." - Slate "For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature..."--The New York Times Beloved New Yorker writer Lore Segal, at 95-years-old, is a national treasure. Working at the height of her powers, in this story collection she turns her gimlet eye and compassionate humor on aging and life in the slow lane. From the master of the short short comes a collection of 16 new stories featuring old friends who have loved and lunched together for over 40 years. These erudite, sharp-minded nonagenarians offer startling insights into friendship, family and aging. Can the group organize a visit to one of their number in her new, and detested, assisted living situation? Is this a fabulous party with old friends, or a funeral reception? And does who was sleeping with whom, way back when, still matter? In story after story, Segal's voice is always hilarious and urbane, heartbreaking and profound, keen and utterly unsentimental, as she tackles aging's affronts.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Melville House PublishingISBN-13:9781685891015ISBN-10:1685891012UPC:9781685891015Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Humorous, Jewish, WomenBook Topic:Black HumorSize:8.27 x 5.58 x 0.19 inchesWeight:0.33Product ID:SCQPHNXJTH
Lore Segal is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Shakespeare's Kitchen, as well as the novels Half the Kingdom, Lucinella, Other People's Houses, Her First American and the collection The Journal I Did Not Keep. She is the recipient of the American Academy Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The O'Henry Prize and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, and numerous other publications. In 2023, Segal was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives and works in New York City.
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