Half the kingdom
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Published
Brooklyn, New York : Melville House, 2013.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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"A brilliant dark comedy about life, death and growing old in America told with Segal's characteristic humor, crystalline style and deadpan delivery--and her hilarious sense of the absurd. Half the Kingdom is a brilliant dark comedy about life, death and growing old in post-9/11 America--a place where terrorist paranoia and end-of-the-world hysteria masks deeper fears about mortality; a place where the broken medical system leads one character to quip, "Kafka wrote slice-of-life fiction." 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 marked up-tick in Alzheimer victims. 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? As profoundly moving as Joan Didion's latest non-fiction, and as thoughtful and charming as Diana Athill, Segal's crystalline writing and deep appreciation of the absurd make this most tragic and hilarious novel a joy for all to read"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Segal, L. G. (2013). Half the kingdom . Melville House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Segal, Lore Groszmann. 2013. Half the Kingdom. Melville House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Segal, Lore Groszmann. Half the Kingdom Melville House, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Segal, Lore Groszmann. Half the Kingdom Melville House, 2013.
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