EBOOK Half the Kingdom
Opis
A Novel
New York Times Notable Book 2013"e;No one writes like Segal 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."e; Margot Livesey "e;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."e; Jennifer Egan&';Lore Segal is a marvelous and fearless writer. No subject is too hard, too absurd, or too painful for her wise, peculiar and brilliant fiction.&' Lily TuckThe renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lore Segalwhom The New York Times declared "e;closer than anyone to writing the Great American Novel"e;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. 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 Kingdomwhere 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, "e;Kafka wrote slice-of-life fiction"e;all is familiar and yet slightly askew.Lore Segal masterfully interweaves her characters&' liveslives that, for good or for ill, all converge in Cedar&'s ERinto a funny, tragic, and tender portrait of how we live today.From the Hardcover edition.
New York Times Notable Book 2013"e;No one writes like Segal 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."e; Margot Livesey "e;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."e; Jennifer Egan&';Lore Segal is a marvelous and fearless writer. No subject is too hard, too absurd, or too painful for her wise, peculiar and brilliant fiction.&' Lily TuckThe renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lore Segalwhom The New York Times declared "e;closer than anyone to writing the Great American Novel"e;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. 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 Kingdomwhere 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, "e;Kafka wrote slice-of-life fiction"e;all is familiar and yet slightly askew.Lore Segal masterfully interweaves her characters&' liveslives that, for good or for ill, all converge in Cedar&'s ERinto a funny, tragic, and tender portrait of how we live today.From the Hardcover edition.