Her First American by Lore Segal
Hailed by the New York Times as 'coming closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel'
Brilliantly acute * The New Yorker *
A novel of unmatched vibrancy..Carter Bayoux is one of the great creations of American literature * Vivian Gornick *
This book will continue to delight readers for as long as people read fiction -- John Mitchinson * Backlisted podcast *
A stunning achievement because Segal is willing to sound the depths and dangers of existence and show us what is true about ourselves and the world -- from the introduction by Jeffery Reynard Allen
Lore Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing the Great American Novel * New York Times *
A quiet, unassuming, hilarious and bold novel which may, or may not be, a masterpiece -- Stanley Crouch, cultural critic * New York Tmes *
A novel of unmatched vibrancy..Carter Bayoux is one of the great creations of American literature * Vivian Gornick *
This book will continue to delight readers for as long as people read fiction -- John Mitchinson * Backlisted podcast *
A stunning achievement because Segal is willing to sound the depths and dangers of existence and show us what is true about ourselves and the world -- from the introduction by Jeffery Reynard Allen
Lore Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing the Great American Novel * New York Times *
A quiet, unassuming, hilarious and bold novel which may, or may not be, a masterpiece -- Stanley Crouch, cultural critic * New York Tmes *
Lore Segal (1928-2024), a Kindertransport refugee from Vienna, moved to New York in the early 1950s. For six decades, her stories were published in The New Yorker. Her First American draws on her five-year relationship with the Black American sociologist Horace Cayton Jr. It took her eighteen years to write and won an American Academy Award. Sort of Books also publishes Segal's novels, An Absence of Cousins and Other People's Houses, as well as her acclaimed story sequence, Ladies' Lunch, written in her 90s.
Jeffery Renard Allen is the author of six books of fiction and poetry, including the celebrated novel Song of the Shank (2014) and the short story collection Fat Time (2023). He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Carnegie Medal.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781914502330 |
| ISBN 10 | 1914502337 |
| Title | Her First American |
| Author | Lore Segal |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Sort of Books |
| Year published | 2025-07-03 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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