
An Absence of Cousins : A Novel
by Lore Segal
Title:
An Absence of Cousins : A Novel
Author:
Lore Segal
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
256 pages
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
ISBN-13:
9781914502101
EAN:
9781914502101
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
420
Dimensions (mm):
130 x 198 x 24
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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".














