Half the Kingdom
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New York Times Notable Book 2013 At once wry and poingnant. --The New Yorker A masterwork...Both wise and deeply enjoyable. --Cynthia Ozick, author of Foreign Bodies
The renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lore Segal--whom The New York Times declared closer than anyone to writing the Great American Novel--delivers a hilarious, poignant and profoundly moving tale of living, loving and aging in America today At Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, doctors have noticed a marked uptick in Alzheimer's patients. People who seemed perfectly lucid just a day earlier suddenly show signs of advanced dementia. Is it just normal aging, or an epidemic? Is it a coincidence, or a secret terrorist plot? In the looking-glass world of Half the Kingdom--where terrorist paranoia and end-of-the-world hysteria mask deeper fears of mortality; where parents' and their grown children's feelings vacillate between frustration and tenderness; and where the broken medical system leads one character to quip, Kafka wrote slice-of-life fiction--all is familiar and yet slightly askew. Lore Segal masterfully interweaves her characters' lives--lives that, for good or for ill, all converge in Cedar's ER--into a funny, tragic, and tender portrait of how we live today.
The renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lore Segal--whom The New York Times declared closer than anyone to writing the Great American Novel--delivers a hilarious, poignant and profoundly moving tale of living, loving and aging in America today At Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, doctors have noticed a marked uptick in Alzheimer's patients. People who seemed perfectly lucid just a day earlier suddenly show signs of advanced dementia. Is it just normal aging, or an epidemic? Is it a coincidence, or a secret terrorist plot? In the looking-glass world of Half the Kingdom--where terrorist paranoia and end-of-the-world hysteria mask deeper fears of mortality; where parents' and their grown children's feelings vacillate between frustration and tenderness; and where the broken medical system leads one character to quip, Kafka wrote slice-of-life fiction--all is familiar and yet slightly askew. Lore Segal masterfully interweaves her characters' lives--lives that, for good or for ill, all converge in Cedar's ER--into a funny, tragic, and tender portrait of how we live today.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1612193927
ISBN13:9781612193922
Release Date:November 2014
Publisher:Melville House Publishing
Length:176 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 8.2"
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