Originally published in 1964 and hailed by critics including Cynthia Ozick and Elie Wiesel, Other People s Houses is Lore Segal s internationally acclaimed semi-autobiographical first novel.
Nine months after Hitler takes Austria, a ten-year-old girl leaves Vienna aboard a children s transport that is to take her and several hundred children to safety in England. For the next seven years she lives in other people s houses, the homes of the wealthy Orthodox Jewish Levines, the working-class Hoopers, and two elderly sisters in their formal Victorian household. An insightful and...
Originally published in 1964 and hailed by critics including Cynthia Ozick and Elie Wiesel, Other People s Houses is Lore Segal s internatio...
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...
The thirteen interrelated stories of Shakespeare s Kitchen concern the universal longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies for o...
