Lore Segal

Half the Kingdom

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 Bodies The 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 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Melville House Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 187g
• ISBN-13: 9781612193922
• ISBN-10: 1612193927
• Artikelnr.: 40623948

Autorenporträt

Lore Segal