Lore Segal

• Jan-1977
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• May-1986
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Hailed by the New York Times as coming “closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel,” Lore Segal stuns with this passionate love story of a refugee from Hitler’s Europe and a witty, hard-drinking black intellect...

• May-2003
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You’re invited to a birthday party!

It’s Benjamin’s birthday. The present Morris brings to give Benjamin is what Morris would like to get himself, and he refuses to hand it over. But Morris can’t have fun at a party while he’s holdin...

• Dec-2004
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With a foreword by Cynthia Ozick, this semiautobiographical novel of a Jewish girl forced away from home in the face of Nazi persecution is an extraordinary tale of fortitude and survival On a December night in 1938, a ten-year-old girl named Lore ...

• Jun-2005
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Mrs. Lovewright was a chilly person. When it got night outside, she closed her door and made herself a fire; then she took off her shoes and put her feet up on the stool, and that's when Mrs. Lovewright knew that there was something and she didn't ha...

• Apr-2007
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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 Sega...

• Oct-2009
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Intelligence turns me on.Lore Segal's tour de force look at the New York literary scene was a hit when it was first released in the 1970s, winning the praise of the literary elite. John Garnder called it “magical.” William Gass said it was “w...

• Oct-2013
• / Psychological Suspense
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New York Times Notable Book 2013

"No one writes like Segal -- her glittering intelligence, her piercing wit, and her dazzling insights into manners and mores, are a profound pleasure. From first to last I loved this wise and irreverent novel...

• Oct-2013
• / Literary
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A New York Times Notable BookThe renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist delivers a hilarious, poignant, and profoundly moving tale of living, loving, and aging in America todayAt Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, doctors...

• Jun-2019
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"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature, as this generous sampler attests." -- The New York Times "Segal is a monumental writer, one of the finest of her generation; this lovely ...

• Mar-2023
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National Jewish Book Award FinalistThe New Yorker's Best Book of the Year!"Segal writes with welcome clarity about life’s final years, and if her characters are not always as wise as they think they are, Segal eyes them all with the unsentime...

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More stories about an inquisitive mole and his patient grandmother

Once there was a Mole who lived with his Grandmother Mole in a hole in the forest, and most of the time they got on well enough. But then there was the time Mole wouldn't share...

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Hardcover edition of three wonderfully illustrated tales about a lively girl and her brother. The stories unfold in a big-city setting that blends fantasy and reality. "A hilarious picnic." Publishers Weekly....