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Half the Kingdom (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781612193922)
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xA New York Times Notable Book
The renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist delivers a hilarious, poignant, and profoundly moving tale of living, loving, and aging in America today At Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, doctors have noticed a marked uptick in Alzheimer's patients. People who seemed perfectly lucid just a day earlier suddenly show signs of advanced dementia. Is it just normal aging, or an epidemic? Is it a coincidence, or a secret terrorist plot? In the looking-glass world of Half the Kingdom--where terrorist paranoia and end-of-the-world hysteria mask deeper fears of mortality; where parents' and their grown children's feelings vacillate between frustration and tenderness; and where the broken medical system leads one character to quip, "Kafka wrote slice-of-life fiction"--all is familiar and yet slightly askew. Lore Segal masterfully interweaves her characters' lives--lives that, for good or for ill, all converge in Cedar's ER--into a funny, tragic, and tender portrait of how we live today.
"Lore Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel." --The New York Times "I always feel in her work such a sense of toughness and humor . . . Her writing is sad and funny, and that makes it more of both." --Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad
Author: Lore Segal
ISBN-10: 1612193927
ISBN-13: 9781612193922
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Language: English
Published: 11/04/2014
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.21h x 6.05w x 0.49d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/07/2014 pg. 82
The renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist delivers a hilarious, poignant, and profoundly moving tale of living, loving, and aging in America today At Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, doctors have noticed a marked uptick in Alzheimer's patients. People who seemed perfectly lucid just a day earlier suddenly show signs of advanced dementia. Is it just normal aging, or an epidemic? Is it a coincidence, or a secret terrorist plot? In the looking-glass world of Half the Kingdom--where terrorist paranoia and end-of-the-world hysteria mask deeper fears of mortality; where parents' and their grown children's feelings vacillate between frustration and tenderness; and where the broken medical system leads one character to quip, "Kafka wrote slice-of-life fiction"--all is familiar and yet slightly askew. Lore Segal masterfully interweaves her characters' lives--lives that, for good or for ill, all converge in Cedar's ER--into a funny, tragic, and tender portrait of how we live today.
"Lore Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel." --The New York Times "I always feel in her work such a sense of toughness and humor . . . Her writing is sad and funny, and that makes it more of both." --Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad
Author: Lore Segal
ISBN-10: 1612193927
ISBN-13: 9781612193922
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Language: English
Published: 11/04/2014
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.21h x 6.05w x 0.49d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/07/2014 pg. 82
By Lore Segal
xLORE SEGAL is the author of the novels Lucinella, Other People's Houses, Her First American and the story collection Shakespeare's Kitchen, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is the recipient of an American Academy and the Institutes of Arts and Letters award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an O'Henry Award and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic and other publications. At eighty-five years old, Segal lives and writes in New York City.
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