The Collected Stories Of Hortense Calisher
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The Collected Stories Of Hortense Calisher
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Author : Hortense Calisher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
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The Collected Short Stories Of Hortense Calisher
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Author : Hortense Calisher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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The Collected Stories Of Hortense Calisher
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Author : Hortense Calisher
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2013-08-06
The Collected Stories Of Hortense Calisher written by Hortense Calisher and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-06 with Fiction categories.
DIVDIVFinalist for the National Book Award: Thirty-six stories by O. Henry Award–winning novelist Hortense Calisher/divDIV The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher gathers short pieces that chart the author’s best-loved themes of mindful consciousness and social worlds. This collection includes one of her well-known New Yorker stories, “In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks,” in which a young man drops his mother off at a sanitarium and acquires a new friend who finally awakens him to the world. Also included are “The Sound of Waiting,” one of the chapters in the Elkin family saga; the chilling, Jamesian “The Scream on Fifty-seventh Street,” in which a New York widow hears a scream late one night but cannot decide how to investigate without appearing to her neighbors to have gone mad; and the nearly novella-length “The Summer Rebellion.”/div/div
The Collected Stories
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Author : Hortense Calisher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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The Fiction Of Hortense Calisher
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Author : Kathleen Snodgrass
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 1993
The Fiction Of Hortense Calisher written by Kathleen Snodgrass and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Hortense Calisher is the author of eleven novels, six collections of stories or novellas, and two memoirs. The publication of her first book of short stories, In the Absence of Angels (1951), marked the debut of an important writer. For the past forty years her works have been consistently and widely reviewed. Calisher has long been celebrated (and censured) as a "writer's writer," a consummate stylist with an impressive range of subjects. Despite that range, however, Calisher's works possess a thematic coherence that has eluded critical notice. For more than forty years, she has spun out variations on the motif of rites of passage and of extradition. Her protagonists may yearn for stasis, for a firmly manageable reality, but finally emerge into a world where change is the only constant." "In The Fiction of Hortense Calisher, the first book-length study of Calisher's work, Kathleen Snodgrass demonstrates this theme's dominance. Following an introduction that provides biographical and critical background, she explores similarities in the structure of Calisher's works, grouping them together to illuminate both the general motif and its distinctive variations. In the first chapter, "Bridging the Gulf: The Autobiographical Stories," Snodgrass arranges Calisher's early stories into a biographically chronological order; a coherent narrative emerges that dramatizes Hester Elkin's rites of passage from childhood through adolescence to early adulthood. Hester Elkin is only the first of a succession of Calisher's protagonists to embrace life as an open-ended journey. In chapter 2, Snodgrass examines four Calisher novels that have in common tumultuous transitions from adolescence to adulthood. In Calisher, an essential part of that rite of passage is a "coming down from the heights" of theorizing and fantasy, into a willingness to grapple with mundane, adult realities. Chapter 3, "False Entries," focuses on two companion novels in which the central drama is the painful transition from stasis to movement." "Subsequent chapters focus on two very different types of movement: "Solo Flights" deals with characters sloughing off conventional lives like dead skins and setting off alone, while "Re-Entries" examines the opposite movement - here Calisher's characters re-enter what she has termed the "great enclosure of the norm." Later chapters discuss Calisher's two novels of space travel - works in which the primary voyage is psychic rather than physical - and works dealing with the voyaging life well into old age." "In her conclusion, "Calisher's 'Monologuing Eye,'" Snodgrass demonstrates the inseparability of style and theme in Calisher's works. Both stylistically and thematically, Calisher repudiates a predictably linear progression through life. If her style is, as some critics have remarked, "dense" and "elliptical," so, too, is her experience of the world. She leaves it to others to duplicate a received reality, choosing instead to take soundings on a world in flux."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Novellas Of Hortense Calisher
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Author : Hortense Calisher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Novellas Of Hortense Calisher written by Hortense Calisher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fiction categories.
This Modern Library collection presents seven novellas that brilliantly showcase the range and depth of the talent of Hortense Calisher, a writer hailed by the Saturday Review as "among the most literate practitioners of modern American fiction, a stylist wholly committed to the exploitation of language." Featured is "Women Men Don't Talk About," a new story, published here for the first time. The novellas are characterized by their unfailing intelligence and by the technical sure-handedness and acuity of the writing. Each has a strong sense of place--New York City, the Hudson Valley, Saratoga Springs--and an eclectic cast of characters who inhabit regions where our most acute hopes, fears, and anxieties coexist. The respectable lawyer of "Tale for the Mirror" attempts to oust an unconventional Hindu healer from his community, only to wonder whether the doctor's trickery is any different from his own. In "The Railway Police," a journey by train occasions a social worker's sudden break with past pretenses and her kafkaesque rebirth as a vagabond. And in "Saratoga, Hot," a sharply observed tale set amid the fabled world of horse racing, a man and woman discover new strength in a love touched by tragedy. Included as well are "Extreme Magic," "The Man Who Spat Silver," and "The Last Trolley Ride." "Calisher hits at her targets at a point more vital than the usual marksman knows to exist," wrote novelist and critic Angus Wilson. And The New York Times Book Review commented, "Seen through her eyes the real world is not prosaic. Placed in lyrical, poetic spaces, it is thick and rich with implication." The Novellas of Hortense Calisher, an edition exclusive to the Modern Library, is amajor collection from one of America's finest literary voices. The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.
In The Absence Of Angels
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Author : Hortense Calisher
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2013-09-17
In The Absence Of Angels written by Hortense Calisher and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-17 with Fiction categories.
DIVDIVThe debut short story collection that launched the career of one of the twentieth century’s most vivid writers, featuring the celebrated tale “In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks”/divDIV/divDIV In this captivating collection of fifteen short stories, many of which first appeared in the New Yorker, Hortense Calisher’s lyrical prose captures the quotidian lives of individuals dealing with alienation, loneliness, and assimilation. Highly influenced by her own New York upbringing, Calisher brings an all-knowing and compassionate verve to these intimate stories./divDIV The opening piece, “In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks,” is an elegantly constructed tale of a man who becomes particularly introspective after dropping his loving but alcoholic mother off at a sanitarium. In “Heartburn,” Calisher deftly sketches a time and place through portraits of watering holes that resemble their own camaraderie-filled communities. The unforgettable title story captures the end of a love affair./div With her distinctive language and psychological clarity, Calisher meticulously builds truths through her characters and their understandings. /div
Herself
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Author : Hortense Calisher
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2013-09-17
Herself written by Hortense Calisher and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A National Book Award nominee: Hortense Calisher’s autobiography captures the making of a distinct literary voice Although Hortense Calisher’s fiction often draws on autobiographical elements, Herself is a disciplined documentation of the award-winning author’s life and work. She surveys the various decades and landscapes she has inhabited, mining her family’s Jewish lineage, discussing her children, exploring her greatest artistic influences, and describing her work process in a brave and bold work of autobiography. Herself is a rich collage of essays, reviews, recollections, and observations that unite the writer and the person.
Saratoga Hot
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Author : Hortense Calisher
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Release Date : 1985
Saratoga Hot written by Hortense Calisher and has been published by Doubleday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Fiction categories.
On Keeping Women
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Author : Hortense Calisher
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2013-09-17
On Keeping Women written by Hortense Calisher and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-17 with Fiction categories.
DIVA complex masterpiece that reveals the mind of a contemporary woman beyond the confines of family, love, and duty to one’s self/divDIV/div Lexie, a married woman with four children, undergoes a midlife crisis and questions her role as wife, mother, and lover. From within a Victorian house in the Hudson River Valley, Lexie dissects her life experiences in hopes of gaining a deeper understanding of her unhappiness. Through rich symbolism, lively dialogue, and acute commentary, Hortense Calisher conjures a cohesive map of Lexie’s personal awakening.