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The Lesson
  • Published: 3 November 2015
  • ISBN: 9781101971345
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 80

The Lesson

  • 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.
  • Published: 3 November 2015
  • ISBN: 9781101971345
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 80
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Praise for The Lesson

Praise for Silence Once Begun

  • "As in Kafka's The Trial, the justice of Silence Once Begun is both tragic and absurd. . . . Genuinely surprising. . . . An accomplishment." --Los Angeles Times
  • "Absorbing, finely wrought. . . . Causes a reader to go carefully, not wanting to miss a word." --Helen Oyeyemi, The New York Times Book Review
  • "Rashomon-like. . . . A graceful and multifaceted fable on the nature of truth and identity." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
  • "Beguiling. . . . Ball enjoys borrowing some of the conventions of crime writing but in order to use them rather than to be used by them. . . . Appealingly funny." --James Wood, The New Yorker