An Absence of Cousins
€14.76
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781914502101 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lore Segal |
| Publisher | Sort of Books |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.300 |
| Publishing Date | 25/07/2024 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €13.92 |
| Tax | €0.84 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €14.76 |
| Availability | 19 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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".