An absence of cousins : a novel
Segal, Lore Groszmann2024
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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.
Main title:
An absence of cousins : a novel / Lore Segal.
Author:
Segal, Lore Groszmann, author
Imprint:
London : Sort Of Books, 2024.
Collation:
240 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781914502101 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.54
Language:
English
BRN:
2718302
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