Half the Kingdom Paperback - 2014

Media reviews

"No one writes like Segal — her glittering intelligence, her piercing wit, and her dazzling insights into manners and mores, are a profound pleasure. From first to last I loved this wise and irreverent novel." —Margot Livesey

"I always feel in her work such a sense of toughness and humor…. Her writing is sad and funny, and that makes it more of both." —Jennifer Egan

"If America had anything resembling a wise elder, or cared to, it would be Lore Segal, and Half the Kingdom would be her moving, blackly-comic revelation." —Shalom Auslander

"I have never read such an astonishing book about old age. It’s remarkable. This woman is one of the best writers I’ve ever had the privilege of reading." —Ayelet Waldman

"Lore Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel." —The New York Times

"...rare insight into the human character that is at once humbling and shamelessly enjoyable to behold. " —Publishers Weekly

"One of the rare writers who combines art, eccentricity, honesty, and wisdom...." —Chicago Tribune

"Every now and then a piece of work bursts the bounds of its own conventions ... announcing the existence in our midst of a genuine writer." —The Nation

"A voice ... unlike any other I had ever known." —Cynthia Ozick

"Outdistances our contemporary expectations of fiction ... to maintain a lasting place not only in American literature but in that of the world." —Stanley Crouch

Citations

• New York Times Book Review, 12/07/2014, Page 82