The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher
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- Synopsis
- Finalist for the National Book Award: Thirty-six stories by O. Henry Award–winning novelist Hortense CalisherThe 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.&”
- Copyright:
- 1948
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 502 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781480437388
- Publisher:
- Open Road Media
- Date of Addition:
- 11/29/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Hortense Calisher
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.