{"product_id":"half-the-kingdom-isbn-9781612193922","title":"Half the Kingdom","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe renowned \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ewriter and Pulitzer Prize finalist delivers a hilarious, poignant, and profoundly moving tale of living, loving, and aging in America today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eAt Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, doctors have noticed a marked uptick in Alzheimer’s patients. People who seemed perfectly lucid just a day earlier suddenly show signs of advanced dementia. Is it just normal aging, or an epidemic? Is it a coincidence, or a secret terrorist plot?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the looking-glass world of \u003ci\u003eHalf the Kingdom—\u003c\/i\u003ewhere terrorist paranoia and end-of-the-world hysteria mask deeper fears of mortality; where parents’ and their grown children's feelings vacillate between frustration and tenderness; and where the broken medical system leads one character to quip, “Kafka wrote slice-of-life fiction”—all is familiar and yet slightly askew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lore Segal masterfully interweaves her characters’ lives—lives that, for good or for ill, all converge in Cedar's ER—into a funny, tragic, and tender portrait of how we live today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Lore Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel.” \u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “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.” \u003cb\u003e—Jennifer Egan, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Visit from the Goon Squad\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book 2013\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The novel's comedy beats back the darkness.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eBook Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“At once wry and poignant.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Acerbic, compassionate, astonishingly keen, very funny.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Extremely funny.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A daring novella that manages to be funny and wise.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the rare writers who combines art, eccentricity, honesty, and wisdom.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Both funny and tragic, delightful and dizzingly complex.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Segal’s narrative unfolds in snapshot scenes... The well-crafted and respectfully comedic depictions of the aged grant this book much of its mind and heart.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eEileen Battersby's Books of the Year 2014, \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A dark comedy... Segal grounds her premise in the most real and authentic detail, exposing the impatience and self-interest of families, as they try to discover what is going wrong.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Biting, irreverant.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An intriguing blend of black farce and modern horror… Ripe with metaphysical resonance and, at times, Segal comes across as a bit like Beckett with a flamboyant sense of humour. Best of all is her prose style.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMetro\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Segal continues to best the best of them with her light hand and heavy comedy.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e (Canada)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Glorious.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMaclean's (Canada)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rare insight into the human character that is at once humbling and shamelessly enjoyable to behold. \"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A masterwork...Both wise and deeply enjoyable.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eCynthia Ozick, author of \u003ci\u003eForeign Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMargot Livesey, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Flight of Gemma Hardy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJennifer Egan, author of \u003ci\u003eA Visit from the Goon Squad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If America had anything  resembling a wise elder, or cared to, it would be Lore Segal, and \u003ci\u003eHalf  the Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e would be her moving, blackly-comic revelation.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eShalom Auslander, author of \u003ci\u003eHope: A Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I have never read such an  astonishing book about old age. It’s  remarkable. This woman is one of  the best writers I’ve ever had the  privilege of reading.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAyelet Waldman, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLove and Treasure\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Lore Segal is a marvelous and fearless writer. No subject is too hard, too absurd, or too painful for her wise peculiar and brilliant fiction.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eLily Tuck, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe News from Paraguay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLORE SEGAL\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eLucinella\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOther People's Houses\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHer First American\u003c\/i\u003e and the story collection \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Kitchen, \u003c\/i\u003ea finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is the recipient of an American Academy and the Institutes of Arts and Letters award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an O'Henry Award and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine, The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e and other publications. At eighty-five years old, Segal lives and writes in New York City.","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305269186789,"sku":"NP9781612193922","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781612193922.jpg?v=1767728624","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/half-the-kingdom-isbn-9781612193922","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}