Half The Kingdom by Lore Segal

Half The Kingdom by Lore Segal

Half the Kingdom is a brilliant dark comedy about life, death and growing old in post-9/11 America - a place where paranoia and hysteria mask deeper fears about mortality and the broken medical system. Characters from Segal's earlier novels are part of the cast whose lives intersect at Manhattan's Cedars of Lebanon emergency room - where doctors have noticed a growth in Alzheimers. People who seemed perfectly lucid just a day earlier exhibit signs of advanced dementia. Is it just normal aging or a coincidence? Is it an epidemic, or a secret terrorist plot?

LORE SEGAL is the author of Shakespeare's Kitchen, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, as well as Half the Kingdom, Lucinella, Other People's Homes, and Her First American. She has received awards from the American Academy and Institutes of Arts and Letters, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship, the O'Henry Prize, and the Harold U. Miller Prize. The Ribalow Prize is an award given by the Ribalow Foundation. She's written for publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, and many others. She has also written children's books and is a German translator.

Segal is based in New York City and works there. CATHERINE LACEY is the author of the novels Nobody is Ever Absent and The Answers, as well as the short story collection Certain American States, which was published recently.

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ISBN 13	9781612193021
ISBN 10	1612193021
Title	Half The Kingdom
Author	Lore Segal
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Melville House Publishing
Year published	2013-10-10
Number of pages	172
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