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| Author | : Hortense Calisher |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2013-11-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1480439010 |
DIVA finely observed and lovingly detailed portrait of a woman attempting to find a community and understand her own troubled history/divDIV/div After spending two decades in jails, psych wards, and halfway houses for her peripheral involvement in a radical students’ bombing plot, thirty-six-year-old Carol Smith winds up squatting in a tattered space in Spanish Harlem. She spends the majority of her vagrant days socializing with her homeless neighbors, arguing with a testy social worker, and wandering the streets with Alphonse, a wayward South African wino and self-professed actor. Alphonse proves to be an inspiring force, and soon Carol is weaning herself off antidepressants as the sifting of her memories—mostly of her upbringing by two aunts in Massachusetts—creates a chance for redemption.
| Author | : Abby H. P. Werlock |
| Publisher | : Infobase Learning |
| Total Pages | : 3854 |
| Release | : 2015-04-22 |
| Genre | : American fiction |
| ISBN | : 143814069X |
Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.
| Author | : Glenda Abramson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2004-03-01 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 1134428642 |
The Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture is an extensively updated revision of the very successful Companion to Jewish Culture published in 1989 and has now been updated throughout. Experts from all over the world contribute entries ranging from 200 to 1000 words broadly, covering the humanities, arts, social sciences, sport and popular culture, and 5000-word essays contextualize the shorter entries, and provide overviews to aspects of culture in the Jewish world. Ideal for student and general readers, the articles and biographies have been written by scholars and academics, musicians, artists and writers, and the book now contains up-to-date bibliographies, suggestions for further reading, comprehensive cross referencing, and a full index. This is a resource, no student of Jewish history will want to go without.
| Author | : Henry James |
| Publisher | : Modern Library |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2012-08-22 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307824098 |
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition brings together one of literature's most famous ghost stories and one of Henry James's most unusual novellas. In The Turn of the Screw, a governess is haunted by ghosts from her young charges past; Virginia Woolf said of this masterpiece of psychological ambiguity and suggestion, We are afraid of something unnamed, of something, perhaps, in ourselves...Henry James...can still make us afraid of the dark. In his rarely anthologized novella In the Cage, James brings his incomparable powers of observation to the story of a clever, rebellious heroine of Britain's lower middle class. Hortense Calisher, in her Introduction, calls it a delicious story, the more so because it confounds what we expect from James.
| Author | : Hortense Calisher |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 528 |
| Release | : 2013-09-17 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1480439029 |
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.
| Author | : Hortense Calisher |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2013-09-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1480438979 |
DIVHortense Calisher’s complex exploration of the journey of a young man whose intelligent observations cannot help him figure out his own direction/divDIV/divDIV Returning home to New York from Europe on his twenty-first birthday, draft-dodging narrator Bunty Bronstein is frustrated with his increasingly pompous businessman father and his disaffected mother, who no longer shows the flame she once possessed./divDIV Equipped with an incisive view of bourgeois lifestyles in New York, Bunty observes the shifting sensibilities of his family members, and yet has difficulty apprehending his own place in the world. Preoccupied with emerging computer technology, yet unsure of his future and alienated from his once-comfortable family, Bunty remains a compelling, wandering soul./div A male companion piece to Hortense Calisher’s equally expert yet campier Queenie, Eagle Eye explores the mind of a relatable young man facing dilemmas that are at once universal and singular.
| Author | : Hortense Calisher |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 744 |
| Release | : 2013-08-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1480437387 |
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
| Author | : Hortense Calisher |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2013-09-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 148043891X |
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
| Author | : Hortense Calisher |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 127 |
| Release | : 2013-11-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1480439037 |
Hortense Calisher’s evocative memoir bristles with intelligence and youthful inquiry Kissing Cousins recalls the author as a teenager: peppy, earnest, and a bit self-important. Hortense Calisher documents her family’s surprising history as Southern Jews adrift in New York. Finding her new city and school boorish, the young Calisher takes solace in the enduring friendship she develops with Katie Pyle, a gregarious nurse turned “kissing cousin” fifteen years Calisher’s senior. Katie, an unmarried woman, possesses her own secret, depicted here with a novelist’s touch for the dramatic. Kissing Cousins tackles matters of aging, life, and death with the sensitivity and eloquence readers have come to expect from Hortense Calisher.
| Author | : Hortense Calisher |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 149 |
| Release | : 2013-11-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1480437425 |
DIVDIVA novel that examines aging and marriage with sincerity and insight/divDIV Rupert and Gemma, an elderly couple still very much in love, know that death will inevitably come for one of them before taking the other, so they keep private journals to ensure that the survivor’s mate will never truly be gone, living on instead through his or her words. Age is the narrative of Rupert and Gemma’s lives: their similarities, their differences, and the ways in which the two are irreversibly entwined. Each writes of life’s mundane events—social outings, errands, a quiet night at home—that assume wistful meaning when viewed through the lens of memory./divDIV/div/div
