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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 affair—one of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction.
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About the Author
Lore Segal was born in Vienna and educated at the University of London. The author of Other People’s Houses, Her First American, and Shakespeare’s Kitchen (all published by The New Press) and other works, she is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, and other publications. Between 1968 and 1996 she taught writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, Princeton University, Bennington College, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ohio State University, from which she retired in 1996.
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Charm, warmth, humor, and a completely unsentimental compassion are exactly what Segal provides in this bittersweet, idiosyncratic love story. . . A truly original novel. -- Newsday
Lore Segal is. . . one of those rare people who combine art, eccentricity, honesty, and wisdom and who, by a change of tone, an altered inflection, produce such enchanting effects that the listener is swept along. -- Chicago Tribune
Lore Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing the Great American Novel. . . It's about how we lose by winning, how we are educated by loving, how we change and are changed by everyone we know. -- New York Times Book Review
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- PublisherThe New Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 156584145X
- ISBN 13 9781565841451
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
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