The Journal I Did Not Keep [electronic resource] : New and Selected Writing

Segal, Lore2019

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—Kirkus Reviews A DEFINITIVE LOOK AT ONE OF AMERICA'S FINEST WRITERS—INCLUDING NEW AND NEVER-BEFORE-COLLECTED WORK From the award-winning New Yorker writer comes this essential volume spanning almost six decades. Admired for “a voice unlike any other” (Cynthia Ozick) and a style both “wry and poignant” (The New Yorker), Lore Segal is a master literary stylist. This volume collects some of her finest work—including new and uncollected writing—and selections from her novels, stories, and essays. From her very first story—which appeared in The New Yorker in 1961—to today, Segal’s voice has been unique in contemporary American literature: Hilarious and urbane, heartbreaking and profound. A keen and utterly unsentimental observer, Segal has often used her own biography as both subject and inspiration: At age ten she was sent on the Kindertransport from Vienna to England to escape the Nazi invasion of Austria; grew up among English foster families; and eventually made her way to the United States. This experience was the impetus for her first novel, Other People’s Houses, and one that she has revisited throughout her career. From that beginning, with boundless curiosity and intense intelligence, Segal’s writing has ranged widely across form: fiction, memoir, essays; as well as subject matter: the immigrant experience, religion, aging, memory and the art of writing itself. She wrote about race relations in 1950s America in the novel Her First American, about which The New York Times reviewer pointedly observed, “though it was not written by a man . . . Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel.” Segal’s flawless prose—unfailingly crystalline—and her light touch belies the toughness, the humor, and the power of a writer who is a master of her art.