Product Description: New York Times Notable Book 2013"At once wry and poingnant." —The New Yorker"A masterwork...Both wise and deeply enjoyable." —Cynthia Ozick, author of Foreign BodiesThe renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lore Segal—whom The New York Times declared "closer than anyone to writing the Great American Novel"—delivers a hilarious, poignant and profoundly moving tale of living, loving and aging in America todayAt Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, doctors have noticed a marked uptick in Alzheimer's patients...read more

Product Description: Intelligence turns me on.Lore Segal's tour de force look at the New York literary scene was a hit when it was first released in the 1970s, winning the praise of the literary elite. John Garnder called it “magical.” William Gass said it was “witty, elegant, beautiful...read more

Product Description: The thirteen interrelated stories of Shakespeare’s Kitchen concern the universal longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies for ourselves, and how slowly, inexplicably, we lose them. Featuring six never-before-published pieces, Lore Segal’s stunning new book evolved from seven short stories that originally appeared in the New Yorker (including the O...read more

Follows the humorous and poignant love affair between Ilka Weissnix, a newly arrived Jewish refugee from Hitler's Europe, and Carter Bayoux, a hard-drinking, middle-aged African-American intellectual. Reprint.

A fortieth anniversary edition of the author's semi-autobiographical first novel follows the experiences of a ten-year-old girl who flees her Nazi-occupied homeland and finds shelter in England with three families including the Jewish Orthodox Levines, the working-class Hoopers, and two elderly sisters from a formal Victorian household. Reprint.

Product Description: She’s Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He’s Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking black intellectual. Lore Segal’s brilliant novel is the story of their love affair—one of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction...read more

Mitzi and Jacob have two interesting excursions and a bout of coughs and sneezes in these imaginatively illustrated adventures

When Juliet falls down and continues to cry, her mother decides to take her home and a parade of noises begin

When the bear insults the kingbirds' chicks, a humorous battle ensues between the land animals and the flying creatures of the world.