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Ladies' lunch : and other stories / Lore Segal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Brooklyn, NY : Melville House Publishing, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 131 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781685891015
  • 1685891012
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Ruth, Frank and Dario -- Days of martini and forgetting -- How Lottie lost Bessie -- The arbus factor -- Soft sculpture -- Mother Lear -- Around the corner you can't see around -- Ladies lunch -- Sans teeth, sans taste -- Dandelion -- Making good -- Divorce -- Pneumonia chronicles -- Bedroom lesson -- Relative time -- Ladies' zoom.
Summary: "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 aging. When one of their number is placed unhappily in a home the others conspire to spring her. Returning 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 distill the spirit of one of America's great authors to show us what a long life might bring."--Publisher.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction In Case You Missed It SEGAL, LORE ICYMI: Recently New Checked out 06/12/2024 33111011216310
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

National Jewish Book Award Finalist

The New Yorker's Best Book of the Year!

"Segal writes with welcome clarity about life's final years, and if her characters are not always as wise as they think they are, Segal eyes them all with the unsentimental wisdom of a life spent writing wondrous stories and essays, a career spent telling the truth." - Slate

"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature..."- The New York Times

Beloved 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 friends who have loved and lunched together for over 40 years. These erudite, sharp-minded nonagenarians offer startling insights into friendship, family and aging.

Can the group organize a visit to one of their number in her new, and detested, assisted living situation? Is this a fabulous party with old friends, or a funeral reception? And does who was sleeping with whom, way back when, still matter?

In story after story, Segal's voice is always hilarious and urbane, heartbreaking and profound, keen and utterly unsentimental, as she tackles aging's affronts.

Ruth, Frank and Dario -- Days of martini and forgetting -- How Lottie lost Bessie -- The arbus factor -- Soft sculpture -- Mother Lear -- Around the corner you can't see around -- Ladies lunch -- Sans teeth, sans taste -- Dandelion -- Making good -- Divorce -- Pneumonia chronicles -- Bedroom lesson -- Relative time -- Ladies' zoom.

"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 aging. When one of their number is placed unhappily in a home the others conspire to spring her. Returning 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 distill the spirit of one of America's great authors to show us what a long life might bring."--Publisher.

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