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Ladies' Lunch

a novella & other stories

Lore Segal

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English
Sort of Books
27 June 2023
Five close friends in their 90s meet - as they have for decades - for their monthly 'ladies lunch', to puzzle, and laugh at, the enigmas and affronts of ageing. When one of their number is placed unhappily in a home the others conspire to spring her.

Lore Segal's witty, yet poignant, short story, Ladies' Lunch, appeared in the New Yorker in 2017, when she herself turned ninety. It was followed by four New Yorker sequels. For this sparkling collection, Segal returns to her group of erudite, sharp-minded nonagenarians in Upper Manhattan offering startling insights into friendship and mortality.

In the book's Other Stories, Segal includes tales from her acclaimed and prizewinning oeuvre to illuminate the hinterland of her characters - one of whom, like her, was a Kindertransport refugee.

Beautifully crafted and profound, these stories distil the spirit of one of America's great authors to show us what a long life might bring.

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Imprint:   Sort of Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 126mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   189g
ISBN:   9781914502033
ISBN 10:   1914502035
Pages:   160
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Lore Segal (b. Vienna 1928) is a renowned American author. She won an American Academy Award (for Her First American), the O. Henry Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer. She remains a regular contributor to the New Yorker. Her novel Other People's Houses (1964) was published by Sort of Books in 2018.

Reviews for Ladies' Lunch: a novella & other stories

Lore Segal has the sharp analytic eye of a born writer * The New York Times Book Review * Segal has the dazzling ability to merge the mundane details of life with the arc of human emotions * The Washington Post * 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 -- Jennifer Egan If America had anything resembling a wise elder, or cared to, it would be Lore Segal -- Shalom Auslander


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