{"product_id":"9781914502101","title":"An Absence of Cousins : A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Segal, Lore \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 25\/07\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 256 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781914502101,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\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 key?In 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":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43364701765676,"sku":"9781914502101","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781914502101_ba0af55e-0b82-44a7-a073-cac440da41f5.jpg?v=1759662917","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781914502101","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}