The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher
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Finalist for the National Book Award: Thirty-six stories by O. Henry Award-winning novelist Hortense Calisher"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."
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0877956022
ISBN13:9780877956020
Release Date:January 1984
Publisher:Arbor House Pub Co
Length:502 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
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