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The Lesson

by Jesse Ball
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A Vintage Short 
Loring is a widow and chess master who makes her living giving chess lessons; her newest student, who might be a prodigy, bears a striking resemblance to her dead spouse. Has her chess champion husband found a final move beyond the grave? 
A chess fable from the wildly inventive, immensely talented author of A Cure for Suicide and Silence Once Begun, “The Lesson” is a surprising, poignant, macabre tale of games, children, and the unknowability of the beyond. Channeling the chess masterpieces of Nabokov and Stefan Zweig, Jesse Ball’s newest is a fabulous and entertaining novella that astonishes from first move to last.
An eBook short.
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Series: A Vintage Short Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: November 3, 2015

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781101971345
  • File size: 832 KB
  • Release date: November 3, 2015

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781101971345
  • File size: 832 KB
  • Release date: November 3, 2015

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Kindle Book
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Fiction Literature Short Stories

Languages

English

A Vintage Short 
Loring is a widow and chess master who makes her living giving chess lessons; her newest student, who might be a prodigy, bears a striking resemblance to her dead spouse. Has her chess champion husband found a final move beyond the grave? 
A chess fable from the wildly inventive, immensely talented author of A Cure for Suicide and Silence Once Begun, “The Lesson” is a surprising, poignant, macabre tale of games, children, and the unknowability of the beyond. Channeling the chess masterpieces of Nabokov and Stefan Zweig, Jesse Ball’s newest is a fabulous and entertaining novella that astonishes from first move to last.
An eBook short.
Expand title description text
Fiction Literature Short Stories