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Lore Segal

Lore Segal

·3.69·3,572 Ratings
“ This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ” ― Rumi
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  • Shakespeare's Kitchen

    2007·
    ·3.15·513 Ratings
    The thirteen interrelated stories of Shakespeare’s Kitchen concern the universal longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies for ourselves, and how slowly, inexplicably, we lose them. Featuring six never-before-published pieces, Lore Segal’s
  • The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm

    2003·
    ·4.23·372 Ratings
    Back in Print!Originally published as a two-volume set forty years ago, The Juniper Tree is distinguished first by the selection of stories. Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak jointly culled 27 from the 210 in the complete collection, and their contents page p
  • Her First American

    2004·
    ·3.65·216 Ratings
    She’s Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He’s Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking black intellectual. Lore Segal’s brilliant novel is the story of their love
  • Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

    2003·
    ·4.02·1,011 Ratings
    "Instead of God I believe in ghosts," writes the literary scholar Ruth Kluger in this harrowing memoir of life under the yellow star, a controversial bestseller in Germany.Born in Vienna, Kluger somehow survived a girlhood spent in Theresienstadt, Auschwi
  • Tell Me a Mitzi

    2008·
    ·4.35·162 Ratings
    In this classic picture book, three stories of family life lead into fantasy and home again.
  • Other People's Houses

    1994·
    ·3.56·147 Ratings
    Originally published in 1964 and hailed by critics including Cynthia Ozick and Elie Wiesel, Other People’s Houses is Lore Segal’s internationally acclaimed semi-autobiographical first novel.Nine months after Hitler takes Austria, a ten-year-old girl l
  • Half the Kingdom

    2013·
    ·2.78·200 Ratings
    New York Times Notable Book 2013The 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 o
  • Lucinella

    2009·
    ·3.56·179 Ratings
    Intelligence turns me on.Lore Segal's tour de force look at the New York literary scene was a hit when it was first released in the 1970s, winning the praise of the literary elite. John Garnder called it “magical.” William Gass said it was “witty, e
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