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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. '' No one writes like Segal her glittering intelligence, her piercing wit, and her dazzling

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Author

Segal, Lore

Publisher

Melville House Publishing

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781612193038

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Medical, Literary Fiction

Rating

2.81 / 5 (195 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13