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An Absence of Cousins
Lore Segal
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
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".
Rezensionen
Segal has the dazzling ability to merge the mundane details of life with the arc of human emotions
Her themes are big - memory, genocide, refugees, race - but her approach is fine-grained
Lore Segal has the sharp analytic eye of a born writer
Segal's precise, witty prose and boundless empathy ensure that Ilka's world of 'elective cousinship'
A writer who has energy and brio running through everything she does ... I'd be happy for Ilka'
Lore Segal is a national treasure, brilliant, unsentimental, and wry
Lore Segal at her best: funny, warm and keenly observed
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
Segal is a monumental writer, one of the finest of her generation
Kundenbewertungen
Pulitzer finalist, Jennifer Egan New Yorker pick, New Yorker writer, Barnes&Noble bestelling author, author of Other People’s Houses, refugee literature, Oprah bookchoice, author of Ladies’ Lunch, acclaimed US author, Lore Segal, fiction set in 1970s, perfect summer reading, NYT notable book