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Hortense Calisher

Tale for the Mirror

A Novella and Other Stories

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Hortense Calisher delivers another collection of provocative prose, on par with that of Henry James and John UpdikeA novella plus twelve short vignettes, Tale for the Mirror demonstrates Hortense Calisher's masterful use of language in an exploration of the human condition. In the title novella, a suburban man in the Hudson River Valley analyzes his life and discovers the importance of stories after a sage Indian mystic moves into his neighborhood.Laced with wit and pathos, the evocative shorter pieces include the galvanizing The Scream on Fifty-seventh Street, a textured tale of a widow who overhears an incident outside her window, compellin… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4804-3892-7
  • EAN: 9781480438927
  • Produktnummer: 31915905
  • Verlag: Open Road Media
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 307 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'375 KB

Über den Autor


Hortense Calisher (1911-2009) was born in New York City. The daughter of a young German-Jewish immigrant mother and a somewhat older Jewish father from Virginia, she graduated from Barnard College in 1932 and worked as a sales clerk before marrying and moving to Nyack, New York, to raise her family. Her first book, a collection of short stories titled In the Absence of Angels, appeared in 1951. She went on to publish two dozen more works of fiction and memoir, writing into her nineties.A past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of PEN, the worldwide association of writers, she was a National Book Award finalist three times, won an O. Henry Award for The Night Club in the Woods and the 1986 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for The Bobby Soxer, and was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1952 and 1955.

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