The Lesson (Kindle Single) (A Vintage Short)

The Lesson (Kindle Single) (A Vintage Short)

A Vintage Short <br /><br /> 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?  <br /><br /> A chess fable from the wildly inventive, immensely talented author of <i>A Cure for Suicide </i>and<i> Silence Once Begun</i>, “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.<br /><br /> An eBook short.