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Ladies’ Lunch
- Author
- Lore Segal
- Narrator
- Callie Beaulieu
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Publish Date
- 17 October 2023
- Run Time
- 2 hours 51 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Beloved 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 stories featuring old friends who have loved and lunched together for over forty years. These erudite, sharp-minded nonagenarians offer startling insights into friendship, family and aging.
Can the group organize a visit to one of their number in her new, and detested, assisted living situation? Is this a fabulous party with old friends, or a funeral reception? And does who was sleeping with whom, way back when, still matter?
In story after story, Segal's voice is always hilarious and urbane, heartbreaking and profound, keen and utterly unsentimental, as she tackles aging's affronts.
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Details
- Author
- Lore Segal
- Narrator
- Callie Beaulieu
- Duration
- 2 hours 51 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 October 2023
- ISBN
- 9781696613651
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Genre
- Humorous fiction, Short stories, Religious and spiritual fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
"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 stories featuring old friends who have loved and lunched together for over forty years. These erudite, sharp-minded nonagenarians offer startling insights into friendship, family and aging.Can the group organize a visit to one of their number in her new, and detested, assisted living situation? Is this a fabulous party with old friends, or a funeral reception? And does who was sleeping with whom, way back when, still matter?In story after story, Segal's voice is always hilarious and urbane, heartbreaking and profound, keen and utterly unsentimental, as she tackles aging's affronts.
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