Shakespeare's Kitchen: Stories by Lore Segal
	List Price:   $22.95 Unit Price:   $18.36 You Save:   $4.59 (20%) ISBN-10:   1595581510 ISBN-13:   9781595581518 Publisher:   W W Norton; New Press, The Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   April 2007 Pages:   225 Format:   Trade Cloth
Subjects
FICTION_SHORT STORIES (single author)
Description/Notes
'The thirteen interrelated stories of Shakespeare's Kitchen, several of which appeared in The New Yorker, are about the longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies for ourselves, and how slowly, inexplicably, we can lose them.' 'Ilka Weisz has accepted a junior position at the Concordance Institute, a Connecticut think tank, but leaves her New York circle of friends reluctantly. After the comedy of her struggle to meet new people, Ilka comes to embrace, and be embraced by, a new set of acquaintances, including the institute's director, Leslie Shakespeare, and his wife, Eliza. Through a series of memorable dinner parties, afternoon picnics, and Sunday brunches, Segal evokes the subtle humor of the outsider's loneliness, the comfort and charm of familiar companionship, the bliss of being in love, and the strangeness of our behavior in the face of other people's deaths.'--BOOK JACKET. ?Other People's Houses? is inconceivably moving.' -- Cynthia Ozick Lore Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing the Great American Novel.' Every now and then a piece of work bursts the bounds of its own conventions ... announcing the existence in our midst of a genuine writer.' -- Vivian Gornick ?Her First American? outdistances our contemporary expectations of fiction ... to maintain a lasting place not only in American literature but in that of the world.' -- Stanley Crouch The 13 interrelated stories in Segal's deeply moving work concern the universal longing for friendship, and evoke the subtle drama and humor of the outsider's loneliness, the comfort and charm of familiar companionship, and the bliss of being in love. The much-anticipated new book from the acclaimed author of 'Other People's Houses' and 'Her First American'--Lore Segal's first major work of fiction in twenty years. 'Lore Segal is...one of those rare people who combine art, eccentricity, honesty, and wisdom and who, by a change of tone, an altered inflection, produce such enchanting effects that the [reader] is swept along.'--'Chicago Tribune' The thirteen interrelated stories of 'Shakespeare's Kitchen' concern the universal longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies for ourselves, and how slowly, inexplicably, we lose them. Featuring six never-before-published pieces, Lore Segal's stunning new book evolved from seven short stories that originally appeared in 'The New Yorker' (including the O. Henry Prize-winning 'The Reverse Bug'). Ilka Weisz has accepted a teaching position at the Concordance Institute, a think tank in Connecticut, reluctantly leaving her New York circle of friends. After the comedy of her struggle to meet new people, Ilka comes to embrace, and be embraced by, a new set of acquaintances, including the institute's director, Leslie Shakespeare, and his wife, Eliza. Through a series of memorable dinner parties, picnics, and Sunday brunches, Segal evokes the subtle drama and humor of the outsider's loneliness, the comfort and charm of familiar companionship, the bliss of being in love, and the strangeness of our behavior in the face of other people's deaths. A magnificent and deeply moving work, 'Shakespeare's Kitchen' marks the long-awaited return of a writer at the height of her powers.