Ladies' Lunch And Other Stories

Lore Segal

eBook - 2023

National Jewish Book Award FinalistThe 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." - SlateBeloved 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... more