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Ladies' Lunch: and Other Stories

By Lore Segal

Ladies' Lunch: and Other Stories Contemporary literature

Ladies' Lunch: and Other Stories

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National Jewish Book Award Finalist The New Yorker's Best Book of the Year! "For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature..."—The New York Times "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 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 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
144
Release Date:
2023-09-26
Publication Date:
2023-09-26
Publisher:
Melville House
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1685891012
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1050 g
Height:
20.8 cm
Width:
13.9 cm
Thickness:
0.9 cm
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