The Lesson

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary
Cover of the book The Lesson by Jesse Ball, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Cover of the book On Music and Musicians by Jesse Ball
Cover of the book What Are Big Girls Made Of? by Jesse Ball
Cover of the book Touching the Dragon by Jesse Ball
Cover of the book Mencken Chrestomathy by Jesse Ball
Cover of the book In Pharaoh's Army by Jesse Ball
Cover of the book The Dark Side by Jesse Ball
Cover of the book The Reivers by Jesse Ball
Cover of the book Poems 4 A.M. by Jesse Ball
Cover of the book The Sisters of Sinai by Jesse Ball
Cover of the book Small Things Considered by Jesse Ball
Cover of the book Queen Anne by Jesse Ball
Cover of the book The Military Half by Jesse Ball
Cover of the book Those Bones Are Not My Child by Jesse Ball
Cover of the book The Golden City by Jesse Ball
Cover of the book The Unwanted Gaze by Jesse Ball
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy