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Shakespeare's Kitchen: Stories
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.99
Publisher: New Press
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
The thirteen interconnected stories of Shakespeare's Kitchen capture the universal longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies for ourselves, and how slowly, inexplicably, we lose them. Featuring seven short stories that originally appeared in The New Yorker, including the O. Henry Prize-winning The Reverse Bug, and including six additional pieces, Lore Segal's stunning collection exhibits a rare insight into the human character (Publishers Weekly).
Called an enchanting storyteller by The Los Angeles Times, Segal unravels a web of human relationships as we meet Ilka Weisz, who, having accepted a teaching position at the Concordance Institute, a Connecticut think tank, reluctantly leaves her New York circle of friends. After the comedy of her struggle to meet new people, Ilka comes to embrace, and be embraced by, a new set of acquaintances, including the institute's director, Leslie Shakespeare, and his wife, Eliza.
Through a series of memorable dinner parties, picnics, Sunday brunches, and long hours of kitchen conversation, Segal evokes the subtle drama and humor of an outsider's loneliness, the comfort and charm of familiar companionship, the bliss of being in love, and the strangeness of our behavior in the face of other people's deaths.
A magnificent, wholly original comedy of manners set in academic (Booklist), Shakespeare's Kitchen is filled with all the pomp and depressed glory of a modern day The Great Gatsby . . . these vignettes are hilarious and telling. Segal exhibits a rare insight into the human character that is at once humbling and shamelessly enjoyable to behold (Publishers Weekly).
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