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"Segal is a monumental writer, one of the finest of her generation; this lovely collection is a fine introduction to her work."�Kirkus Reviews A DEFINITIVE COLLECTION FROM ONE OF AMERICA'S FINEST WRITERS�INCLUDING NEW AND NEVER-BEFORE-COLLECTED WORK From the award-winning New Yorker writer comes this essential volume spanning almost six decades. Admired for �a voice unlike any other� (Cynthia Ozick) and a style both �wry and poignant� (The New Yorker), Lore Segal is a master literary stylist. This volume collects some of her finest work�including new and uncollected writing�and selections from her novels, stories, and essays. From her very first story�which appeared in The New Yorker in 1961�to today, Segal�s voice has been unique in contemporary American literature: Hilarious and urbane, heartbreaking and profound, keen and utterly unsentimental. Segal has often used her own biography as both subject and inspiration: At age ten she was sent on the Kindertransport from Vienna to England to escape the Nazi invasion of Austria; grew up among English foster families; and eventually made her way to the United States. This experience was the impetus for her first novel, Other People�s Houses, and one that she has revisited throughout her career. From that beginning, Segal�s writing has ranged widely across form as well as subject matter. Her flawless prose and light touch belie the rigor and intelligence she brings to her art�qualities that were not missed by the New York Times reviewer who pointedly observed, �though it was not written by a man . . . Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel.� With this volume comes a long-awaited career retrospective of an important American Writer. (less)

"Segal is a monumental writer, one of the finest of her generation; this lovely collection is a fine introduction to her work."�Kirkus Reviews A DEFINITIVE COLLECTION FROM ONE OF AMERICA'S FINEST WRITERS�INCLUDING NEW AND NEVER-BEFORE-COLLECTED (…more)