The Lesson (Kindle Single) (A Vintage Short)
Categories: Books, Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction

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.


Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
Page Flip: Enabled
Language: English
File size: 925 KB
Publisher: Vintage
Print length: 130 pages
Publication date: November 3, 2015
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
subtitle: Kindle Edition
author: Visit Amazon's Jesse Ball Page search results Jesse Ball