Groszmann, Segal, Lore – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Wed, 27 Nov 2024 11:37:53 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Groszmann, Segal, Lore – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 An absence of cousins https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/an-absence-of-cousins/ Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=41885 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”.

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