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Three hilarious, quirky tales about a young city girl's adventures big and small, from taking a taxi to meeting the president.Lore Segal's classic children's book tells three stories about Mitzi and her family, whose lives unfold within a gritty and yet dreamy cityscape of stoops and row houses that seem to have emerged from a time out of time. In the first story, Mitzi dresses up her baby brother and sets out with him to visit their grandpare...

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For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature..."—The New York TimesBeloved 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 new stories featuring old frien...

Fünf Freundinnen, alle um die Neunzig, treffen sich zu ihrem monatlichen Ladies' Lunch, um über die Rätsel und Kränkungen des Alterns zu beratschlagen und zu lachen. Als eine von ihnen unglücklich in einem Altersheim untergebracht wird, verschwören sich die anderen, um sie zu befreien. Lore Segals titelgebende Kurzgeschichte Ladies' Lunch erschien erstmalig 2017 im New Yorker, als Segal neunzig Jahre alt wurde. Es folgten weitere Fortsetzungen...

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Five old friends meet to muse on life after ninety. Join their table

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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.

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. Henry Prize-winning "The Reverse Bug").Ilka Weisz has accepted a teaching position ...

Segal is a monumental writer, one of the finest of her generation, this lovely collection is a fine introduction to her work."-Kirkus Reviews A DEFINITIVE COLLECTION FROM ONE OF AMERICA'S FINEST WRITERS-INCLUDING NEW AND NEVER-BEFORE-COLLECTED WORK From the award-winning New Yorker writer comes this essential volume spanning almost six decades. Admired for "a voice unlike any other" (Cynthia Ozick) and a style both "wry and poignant" (The New ...

Trade paperback. This acclaimed autobiographical novel offers an in-depth portrayal of the experience of Jewish children evacuated from Austria in the "Kindertransports" bound for Britain.

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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.

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." Stanley Elkin called it "a shamelessly wonderful novel, so flawless one feels civilized reading it." It's been a cult classic ever since, and appears here in its full, original t...

Mrs. Lovewright was a chilly person. When it got night outside, she closed her door and made herself a fire, then she took off her shoes and put her feet up on the stool, and that's when Mrs. Lovewright knew that there was something and she didn't have it. "There's no being cozy without a cat, " she said. So here -- back in print -- is the story of Mrs. Lovewright and that cat, who would not and would not be cozy, from acclaimed author Lore Se...

Originally published in 1964 and hailed by critics including Cynthia Ozick and Elie Wiesel, Other People's Houses is Lore Segal's internationally acclaimed semi-autobiographical first novel.Nine months after Hitler takes Austria, a ten-year-old girl leaves Vienna aboard a children's transport that is to take her and several hundred children to safety in England. For the next seven years she lives in "other people's houses, " the homes of the w...

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...

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The 13 interrelated stories in Segal's deeply moving work concern the universal longing for friendship, and evoke the subtle drama and humor of the outsider's loneliness, the comfort and charm of familiar companionship, and the bliss of being in love.