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Lore Segal

Other People's Houses

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Originally published in 1964 and hailed by critics including Cynthia Ozick and Elie Wiesel, Other People's Houses is Lore Segal's internationally acclaimed semi-autobiographical first novel.Nine months after Hitler takes Austria, a ten-year-old girl leaves Vienna aboard a children's transport that is to take her and several hundred children to safety in England. For the next seven years she lives in other people's houses, the homes of the wealthy Orthodox Jewish Levines, the working-class Hoopers, and two elderly sisters in their formal Victorian household. An insightful and witty depiction of the ways of life of those who gave her refuge, Ot… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-56584-950-1
  • EAN: 9781565849501
  • Produktnummer: 19798608
  • Verlag: New Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Masse: H21.3 cm x B13.2 cm x D2.3 cm 386 g
  • Gewicht: 386

Über den Autor


Lore Segal was born in Vienna and educated at the University of London. The author of Other People's Houses, Her First American, and Shakespeare's Kitchen (all published by The New Press) and other works, she is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, and other publications. Between 1968 and 1996 she taught writing at Columbia University's School of the Arts, Princeton University, Bennington College, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ohio State University, from which she retired in 1996.

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