The Lesson

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary
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Author: Jesse Ball ISBN: 9781101971345
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: November 3, 2015
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Jesse Ball
ISBN: 9781101971345
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: November 3, 2015
Imprint: Vintage
Language: 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.

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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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