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Half the kingdom : a novel / Lore Segal.
"A brilliant dark comedy about life, death and growing old in America told with Segal's characteristic humor, crystalline style and deadpan delivery--and her hilarious sense of the absurd. Half the Kingdom is a brilliant dark comedy about life, death and growing old in post-9/11 America--a place where terrorist paranoia and end-of-the-world hysteria masks deeper fears about mortality; a place where the broken medical system leads one character to quip, "Kafka wrote slice-of-life fiction." Characters from Segal's earlier novels are part of the cast whose lives intersect at Manhattan's Cedars of Lebanon emergency room--where doctors have noticed a marked up-tick in Alzheimer victims. People who seemed perfectly lucid just a day earlier exhibit signs of advanced dementia. Is it just normal aging or a coincidence? Is it an epidemic, or a secret terrorist plot? As profoundly moving as Joan Didion's latest non-fiction, and as thoughtful and charming as Diana Athill, Segal's crystalline writing and deep appreciation of the absurd make this most tragic and hilarious novel a joy for all to read"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781612193038 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: Brooklyn, New York : Melville House, 2013.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Electronic book. |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York Melville House 2013 Available via World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Life change events > Fiction. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Psychological. |
Genre: | Humorous fiction. Psychological fiction. Electronic books. |