Half the Kingdom A Novel
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Ja
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Erscheinungsdatum
01.10.2013
Verlag
Melville HouseSeitenzahl
176 (Printausgabe)
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1971 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781612193038
A New York Times Notable Book
The renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist delivers a hilarious, poignant, and profoundly moving tale of living, loving, and aging in America today
At Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, doctors have noticed a marked uptick in Alzheimer's patients. People who seemed perfectly lucid just a day earlier suddenly show signs of advanced dementia. Is it just normal aging, or an epidemic? Is it a coincidence, or a secret terrorist plot?
In the looking-glass world of Half the Kingdom-where terrorist paranoia and end-of-the-world hysteria mask deeper fears of mortality; where parents' and their grown children's feelings vacillate between frustration and tenderness; and where the broken medical system leads one character to quip, "Kafka wrote slice-of-life fiction"-all is familiar and yet slightly askew.
Lore Segal masterfully interweaves her characters' lives-lives that, for good or for ill, all converge in Cedar's ER-into a funny, tragic, and tender portrait of how we live today.
"Lore Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel." -The New York Times
"I always feel in her work such a sense of toughness and humor . . . Her writing is sad and funny, and that makes it more of both." -Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad
The renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist delivers a hilarious, poignant, and profoundly moving tale of living, loving, and aging in America today
At Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, doctors have noticed a marked uptick in Alzheimer's patients. People who seemed perfectly lucid just a day earlier suddenly show signs of advanced dementia. Is it just normal aging, or an epidemic? Is it a coincidence, or a secret terrorist plot?
In the looking-glass world of Half the Kingdom-where terrorist paranoia and end-of-the-world hysteria mask deeper fears of mortality; where parents' and their grown children's feelings vacillate between frustration and tenderness; and where the broken medical system leads one character to quip, "Kafka wrote slice-of-life fiction"-all is familiar and yet slightly askew.
Lore Segal masterfully interweaves her characters' lives-lives that, for good or for ill, all converge in Cedar's ER-into a funny, tragic, and tender portrait of how we live today.
"Lore Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel." -The New York Times
"I always feel in her work such a sense of toughness and humor . . . Her writing is sad and funny, and that makes it more of both." -Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad
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