An Absence of Cousins : A Novel
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 25/07/2024,
Pagination: 256 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Sort of Books,
Published By: SORT OF BOOKS ,
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 24mm
Weight: 300g
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781914502101
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 keyIn 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'.
An Absence of Cousins : A Novel
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