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Lore Segal Lucinella (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Lucinella
- Publication Name
- Lucinella
- Title
- Lucinella
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1933633794
- EAN
- 9781933633794
- ISBN
- 9781933633794
- Publisher
- Melville House Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 13/10/2009
- Release Year
- 2009
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 7in
- Item Weight
- 6.1 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Topic
- General, Satire, Literary, Humorous / General, Jewish
- Item Width
- 5in
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
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A brilliant and scathing look at the New York literary scene which was a sensational hit when first released and has remained a cult classic ever since. Fresh as ever, the witty and whimsical novella follows poet Lucinella in her adventures among the literati as she travels from Yaddo-like writers' colonies to the grit of the city, where writers are confronted with questions of how husbands, publishers and filing systems can boost their careers and get their lives in order.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
ISBN-10
1933633794
ISBN-13
9781933633794
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72325532
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lucinella
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Satire, Literary, Humorous / General, Jewish
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5in
Height
0.4in
Length
7in
Item Weight
6.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3569.E425l83 2009
Reviews
"[An] unusual, original, poetic, simple, complicated, baffling, probing, erudite, allusive, illusive, down-to-earth, up-to-heaven novel. It might suffice to call it a novel novel. One can be sure that Lore Segal is no ordinary writer. She can give imagination, unexpectedness, and beauty to the ordinary, whether it be the look of a 'scrumpled' towel on a rack or confronting a Fuller Brush salesman. She can the make the earthly divine and the divine earthly." -Richard Armour, Los Angeles Times "I can think of no novel in recent years so delicately balanced, so delicately written, executed with such elegance. It is altogether satisfying. Segal's distinctive style, a voice entirely her own...is as orginal a tone as, say, Grace Paley's when she tells her stories. It is Lucinella's elegant humorous tongue that gives a fine, tasty point to this light-hearted novel about serious matters like art and love." -Doris Grumbach, The Washington Post "And now, at last, Lucinella-a funny, nervous, affecting novel about a poet trying and failing to bring some order to her life and craft. The triumph of the novel is Lucinella herself, whom we come to trust and care for and worry about and despair of. Lucinella is surely the nicest person ever to appear in a novel about New York writers." -John Leonard, The New York Times Book Review "An entrancingly witty anatomy of our (East Coast) literary life, but more than that it is a tough little book that knows very well that charm is not enough. A Pilgrim's Progress of sorts, it would be wrong to underestimate the ambitiousness of its myth just because of its unpretentiousness." -The Nation "Lore Segal dissects the New York literary environment with the skill of a master surgeon and sticks it under the microscope, bit by bit, for us to examine. Ms. Segal has written a full and witty book, spiced with fantasy but firmly rooted in the planet." -Chicago Sun-Times "Marvelously inventive in its creation of metaphor for the world of literary friendships. There is in the style of Lucinella the simplicity, clarity, and crispness of expression one finds in the best writing for children, the ease with magic and imagery found in the best fairy tales. This novel of modern literary life is short but not slight. It has epic qualities." -Helen Weinberg, Cleveland Plain Dealer "Playful and dry as New Yorker cartoons." -Leslie Ullman, Kansas City Star "This odd, wonderful, nervous-breakdown-in-the-form-of-a-novel is going to find an audience that will read it, re-read it, and love every perfect word of it." -Richard Lipez, Newsday "Quite messily charming... Lore Segal's novel is lighter than air on a clear day or the next flyaway fancy as she flirts with myth and metaphor and excitement and disintegration." -Kirkus Reviews "Lore Segal has taken our literary life apart so sweetly that no one will want to put it together again. Lucinella is a witty, elegant, beautiful book." -William Gass "Lucinella is a shamelessly wonderful novel, so flawless one feels civilized reading it." -Stanley Elkin "Lucinella is a perfectly simple, wonderful, magical book. It's as light and innocent as a fantasy, yet all the materials of the fantasy are as convincing as life... It's the best book I know about how poets and novelists really are, as husbands or wives, as lovers, as cocktail-party friends." -John Gardner, Praise for Lore Segal's Lucinella "[An] unusual, original, poetic, simple, complicated, baffling, probing, erudite, allusive, illusive, down-to-earth, up-to-heaven novel. It might suffice to call it a novel novel. One can be sure that Lore Segal is no ordinary writer. She can give imagination, unexpectedness, and beauty to the ordinary, whether it be the look of a 'scrumpled' towel on a rack or confronting a Fuller Brush salesman. She can the make the earthly divine and the divine earthly." -Richard Armour, Los Angeles Times "I can think of no novel in recent years so delicately balanced, so delicately written, executed with such elegance. It is altogether satisfying. Segal's distinctive style, a voice entirely her own...is as orginal a tone as, say, Grace Paley's when she tells her stories. It is Lucinella's elegant humorous tongue that gives a fine, tasty point to this light-hearted novel about serious matters like art and love." -Doris Grumbach, The Washington Post "And now, at last, Lucinella-a funny, nervous, affecting novel about a poet trying and failing to bring some order to her life and craft. The triumph of the novel is Lucinella herself, whom we come to trust and care for and worry about and despair of. Lucinella is surely the nicest person ever to appear in a novel about New York writers." -John Leonard, The New York Times Book Review "An entrancingly witty anatomy of our (East Coast) literary life, but more than that it is a tough little book that knows very well that charm is not enough. A Pilgrim's Progress of sorts, it would be wrong to underestimate the ambitiousness of its myth just because of its unpretentiousness." -The Nation "Lore Segal dissects the New York literary environment with the skill of a master surgeon and sticks it under the microscope, bit by bit, for us to examine. Ms. Segal has written a full and witty book, spiced with fantasy but firmly rooted in the planet." -Chicago Sun-Times "Marvelously inventive in its creation of metaphor for the world of literary friendships. There is in the style of Lucinella the simplicity, clarity, and crispness of expression one finds in the best writing for children, the ease with magic and imagery found in the best fairy tales. This novel of modern literary life is short but not slight. It has epic qualities." -Helen Weinberg, Cleveland Plain Dealer "Playful and dry as New Yorker cartoons." -Leslie Ullman, Kansas City Star "This odd, wonderful, nervous-breakdown-in-the-form-of-a-novel is going to find an audience that will read it, re-read it, and love every perfect word of it." -Richard Lipez, Newsday "Quite messily charming... Lore Segal's novel is lighter than air on a clear day or the next flyaway fancy as she flirts with myth and metaphor and excitement and disintegration." -Kirkus Reviews "Lore Segal has taken our literary life apart so sweetly that no one will want to put it together again. Lucinella is a witty, elegant, beautiful book." -William Gass "Lucinella is a shamelessly wonderful novel, so flawless one feels civilized reading it." -Stanley Elkin "Lucinella is a perfectly simple, wonderful, magical book. It's as light and innocent as a fantasy, yet all the materials of the fantasy are as convincing as life... It's the best book I know about how poets and novelists really are, as husbands or wives, as lovers, as cocktail-party friends." -John Gardner
Copyright Date
2009
Lccn
2009-016783
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
The Contemporary Art of the Novella Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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