Bibliograph

Ladies' lunch, and other stories, Lore Segal

Type

Label

Ladies' lunch, and other stories, Lore Segal

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Ladies' lunch

Oclc number

1373830330

Responsibility statement

Lore Segal

Sub title

and other stories

Summary

"Five close friends in their 90s meet, as they have for decades, for their monthly 'ladies lunch', to puzzle, and laugh at, the enigmas and affronts of aging. When one of their number is placed unhappily in a home the others conspire to spring her. Returning to her group of erudite, sharp-minded nonagenarians in Upper Manhattan offering startling insights into friendship and mortality. In the book's Other Stories, Segal includes tales from her acclaimed and prizewinning oeuvre to illuminate the hinterland of her characters - one of whom, like her, was a Kindertransport refugee. Beautifully crafted and profound, these stories distill the spirit of one of America's great authors to show us what a long life might bring."--Publisher

Table Of Contents

Ruth, Frank and Dario -- Days of martini and forgetting -- How Lottie lost Bessie -- The arbus factor -- Soft sculpture -- Mother Lear -- Around the corner you can't see around -- Ladies lunch -- Sans teeth, sans taste -- Dandelion -- Making good -- Divorce -- Pneumonia chronicles -- Bedroom lesson -- Relative time -- Ladies' zoom

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