An Absence of Cousins

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".

Summary

The first UK publication of Lore Segal's Pulitzer-finalist novel, following on from her acclaimed Ladies' Lunch

Product details

• Authors: Lore Segal
• Publisher: Sort of Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.07.2024
• EAN: 9781914502101
• ISBN: 978-1-914502-10-1
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 199 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories