EAN: 9781685891015

LADIES LUNCH - LORE SEGAL TASCHENBUCH

National Jewish Book Award Finalist   The New Yorker's Best Book of the Year!  "For almost six
decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American
literature..."— The New York Times   "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 unsentimental wisdom of a life spent writing wondrous stories and essays  a career
spent telling the truth." - Slate   Beloved New Yorker writer Lore Segal  at 95-years-old  is a
national treasure. Working at the height of her powers  in this story collection she turns her
gimlet eye and compassionate humor on aging and life in the slow lane.   From the master of the
short short comes a collection of 16 new stories featuring old friends who have loved and
lunched together for over 40 years. These erudite  sharp-minded nonagenarians offer startling
insights into friendship  family and aging.  Can the group organize a visit to one of their
number in her new  and detested  assisted living situation? Is this a fabulous party with old
friends  or a funeral reception? And does who was sleeping with whom  way back when  still
matter?  In story after story  Segal's voice is always hilarious and urbane  heartbreaking and
profound  keen and utterly unsentimental  as she tackles aging's affronts.

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