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Hortense Calisher
With rare verve and panache, Calisher has confronted a difficult and ofter neglected subject, and has triumphed magnificently. Age is not only an important contribution to our understanding of the…
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Carol Smith is incarcerated when the bomb her friends are constructing accidently goes off; twenty years later, finding herself addicted to drugs, she sets off to regain her memories, histories…
Calisher has been hailed as stand[ing] vividly with Cather and Fitzgerald (Cynthia Ozick). In this novel she explores a family united in blood yet divided by ideas. Told with wit…
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Although Calisher’s family eventually migrated north to New York City, the echoes of their days as a slave-owning Jewish family in the South still resonate with this acclaimed author, who…
Henry James
Features two acclaimed short works by Henry James: The Turn of the Screw, a psychological thriller; and In the Cage, a tale of rebellious British heroine Hortense Calisher.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
With an introduction by Hortense Calisher, this is a portrait of the excesses of the Jazz age, largely autobiographical depiction of a glamorous, reckless Manhattan couple, and their spiral into…
