Author |
: Lore Segal |
Publisher |
: Sort of Books |
Total Pages |
: 207 |
Release |
: 2024-07-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781914502118 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1914502116 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis An Absence of Cousins by : Lore Segal
Download or read book An Absence of Cousins written by Lore Segal and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ilka Weisz is in need not just of friends but 'elective cousins'. She has left her home in New York to accept a junior teaching post at the prestigious Concordance Institute, a liberal college in bucolic Connecticut. But how can she, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, find a new set to belong to - a surrogate family? Might the Shakespeares - the institute's director and his wry, acerbic wife - hold the key? In these interlinked New Yorker stories, Lore Segal evokes the comic melancholy of the outsider and the ineffectual ambitions of a progressive, predominantly WASP-ish institution. Tragedy and loss haunt characters as they plan an academic symposium on genocide, while their privileged lives contrast starkly with those on a derelict housing project next door. Includes the acclaimed New Yorker podcast story, "The Reverse Bug".