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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Melville Pub House
Publication date
October 1, 2013
Pages
167
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781612193021
ISBN-10
1612193021
Dimensions
0.75 by 8 by 9 in.
Weight
0.70 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$23.95
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§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: New York Times Notable Book 2013
"No one writes like Segal â her glittering intelligence, her piercing wit, and her dazzling insights into manners and mores, are a profound pleasure. From first to last I loved this wise and irreverent novel." âMargot Livesey
"I always feel in her work such a sense of toughness and humorâ¦. Her writing is sad and funny, and that makes it more of both." âJennifer Egan
âLore Segal is a marvelous and fearless writer. No subject is too hard, too absurd, or too painful for her wise, peculiar and brilliant fiction.â âLily Tuck
The renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lore Segalâwhom The New York Times declared "closer than anyone to writing the Great American Novel"âdelivers 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 Kingdomâwhere 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"âall is familiar and yet slightly askew.
Lore Segal masterfully interweaves her characters' livesâlives that, for good or for ill, all converge in Cedar's ERâinto a funny, tragic, and tender portrait of how we live today.
"No one writes like Segal â her glittering intelligence, her piercing wit, and her dazzling insights into manners and mores, are a profound pleasure. From first to last I loved this wise and irreverent novel." âMargot Livesey
"I always feel in her work such a sense of toughness and humorâ¦. Her writing is sad and funny, and that makes it more of both." âJennifer Egan
âLore Segal is a marvelous and fearless writer. No subject is too hard, too absurd, or too painful for her wise, peculiar and brilliant fiction.â âLily Tuck
The renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lore Segalâwhom The New York Times declared "closer than anyone to writing the Great American Novel"âdelivers 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 Kingdomâwhere 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"âall is familiar and yet slightly askew.
Lore Segal masterfully interweaves her characters' livesâlives that, for good or for ill, all converge in Cedar's ERâinto a funny, tragic, and tender portrait of how we live today.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Melville Pub House (October 1, 2013)
9781612193021 | details & prices | 167 pages | 8.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $23.95
About: New York Times Notable Book 2013"No one writes like Segal â her glittering intelligence, her piercing wit, and her dazzling insights into manners and mores, are a profound pleasure.
About: New York Times Notable Book 2013"No one writes like Segal â her glittering intelligence, her piercing wit, and her dazzling insights into manners and mores, are a profound pleasure.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Melville Pub House (November 4, 2014)
9781612193922 | details & prices | 167 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $15.95
About: New York Times Notable Book 2013"At once wry and poingnant.
About: New York Times Notable Book 2013"At once wry and poingnant.
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