{"product_id":"9781914502101","title":"An Absence of Cousins : A Novel","description":"Author(s): Segal, Lore, \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003eDate of Publication: 25\/07\/2024, \u003cbr\u003ePagination: 256 pages, \u003cbr\u003eSeries: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Sort of Books, \u003cbr\u003e Published By: SORT OF BOOKS                  , \u003cbr\u003eBook Classification: Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 130 x 198 x 24mm\u003cbr\u003eWeight: 300g\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781914502101\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIlka Weisz is in need not just of friends but 'elective cousins'. She has left her home in New York to accept a junior teaching post at the prestigious Concordance Institute, a liberal college in bucolic Connecticut. But how can she, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, find a new set to belong to - a surrogate family Might the Shakespeares - the institute's director and his wry, acerbic wife - hold the keyIn these interlinked New Yorker stories, Lore Segal evokes the comic melancholy of the outsider and the ineffectual ambitions of a progressive, predominantly WASP-ish institution. Tragedy and loss haunt characters as they plan an academic symposium on genocide, while their privileged lives contrast starkly with those on a derelict housing project next door. Includes the acclaimed New Yorker podcast story, 'The Reverse Bug'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46725154767085,"sku":"9781914502101","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/files\/9781914502101.jpg?v=1737212969","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781914502101","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}