Hailed by the New York Times as coming "closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel," Lore Segal stuns with this passionate love story of a refugee from Hitler's Europe and a witty, hard-drinking black intellectualFor Ilka Weissnix, everything is new. Having recently arrived in the United States, she is determined to escape the immigrant communities of New York and boards a train headed west to discover "the real America." She finds Carter Bayoux...

With a foreword by Cynthia Ozick, this semiautobiographical novel of a Jewish girl forced away from home in the face of Nazi persecution is an extraordinary tale of fortitude and survivalOn a December night in 1938, a ten-year-old girl named Lore is put on the Kindertransport, a train carrying hundreds of Jewish children out of Austria to safety from Hitler's increasingly alarming oppression. Temporarily housed at the Dover Court Camp on England's east coast, Lore w...

A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight" (Los Angeles Times).**Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she had been deported, along with her mother, to Ther...

**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 sp...

*"No one writes like Segal — her glittering intelligence, her piercing wit, and her dazzling insights into manners and mores, are a profound pleasure. From first to last I loved this wise and irreverent novel." **—***Margot Livesey*"I always feel in her work such a sense of toughness and humor…. Her writing is sad and funny, and that makes it more of both." **—***Jennifer Egan“Lore Segal is a marvelous and fearless writer....

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, elegant, beautiful.” Stanley Elkin called it “a shamelessly wonderful novel, so flawless one feels civilized reading it.”It's been a cult classic ever since, and appears here in its full, original text, as fresh a...

**"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature..."—The New York TimesThe eagerly awaited follow-up to Ladies' Lunch, beloved New Yorker writer Lore Segal's final story collection returns with further tales of the old friends who have loved and lunched together for over 40 years.**"Segal writes with welcome clarity about life’s final years, and if her characters are not always...

**"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature..."—The New York TimesIn this eagerly awaited follow-up to Ladies' Lunch, the beloved New Yorker writer Lore Segal's returns with her final collection stories of the old friends who have loved and lunched together for over 40 years . . .**"Segal writes with welcome clarity about life’s final years, and if her characters are not a...

"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature, as this generous sampler attests."—The New York Times"Segal is a monumental writer, one of the finest of her generation; this lovely collection is a fine introduction to her work."—Kirkus Reviews"There are many standouts in the collection, but its single greatest strength is the consistency of Segal’s voic...

"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature . . ." —The New York TimesBeloved New Yorker writer Lore Segal, at ninety-five 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 sixteen new stor...

A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight" (Los Angeles Times).Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she had been deported, along with her mother, to Theresi...

Espionage, love, and power play upon the shifting sands of wartime CairoCAIRO, EGYPT 1941. As the Second World War rages, the city known as “Paris on the Nile” plays host to an international set who seem more interested in polo matches and swanky nightclubs than the Germans’ unrelenting advance across North Africa. Meanwhile, as refugees, soldiers, and spies stream into the city, the Nazis conspire with the emerging Muslim Brotherhood to fuel the Egyptian people’s ...