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23 produkter
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A Love Story
Häftad, 2000
148 kr
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Rupert is an honored American poet; Gemma a retired architect. They live happily and comfortably in a Greenwich Village apartment; the setting, for over thirty years, of their married life. Each with a previous marriage behind them - which left her with two daughters and him with the promise of …
False Entry
A Novel
E-bok, 2013
213 kr
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In the vein of Eudora Welty and Charles Dickens, Hortense Calisher''s astounding first novel examines a young man''s detachment from the world—and his struggle to rejoin itPierre Goodman enjoys an idyllic childhood as the son of a widowed dressmaker in post–World War I England. But paradise is …
Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher
E-bok, 2013
246 kr
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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 …
Extreme Magic
Eight Stories and a Novella
E-bok, 2013
31 kr
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The recognition of failure and success is the theme of these eight short stories and the title novella from three-time National Book Award finalist Hortense Calisher Extreme Magic is Hortense Calisher’s third collection of shorter works, after In the Absence of Angels (1951) and Tale for the Mirror …
Journal from Ellipsia
A Novel
E-bok, 2013
34 kr
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A humorous satire and loving tribute to science fiction that delves into the tenuous relationship between science and the humanities by asking, What does it mean to be human? A genderless alien from Ellipsia, a planet whose inhabitants have no concept of individuality, comes to Earth on an …
Railway Police and The Last Trolley Ride
E-bok, 2013
32 kr
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Two novellas from award-winning author Hortense Calisher offering very different journeys: the first looking hopefully forward, and the second, into a painful past The characters in these two novellas take introspective, poignant excursions both to where they want to be ( The Railway Police ) and …
Age
A Love Story
E-bok, 2013
30 kr
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A novel that examines aging and marriage with sincerity and insightRupert 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, …
In the Absence of Angels
Stories
E-bok, 2013
131 kr
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The 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” In this captivating collection of fifteen short stories, many of which first appeared in the New Yorker , …
Tale for the Mirror
A Novella and Other Stories
E-bok, 2013
32 kr
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Hortense Calisher delivers another collection of provocative prose, on par with that of Henry James and John Updike A 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 …
Textures of Life
A Novel
E-bok, 2013
131 kr
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A study in motives, conflicts, ambitions, and fears as idealistic young newlyweds face unanticipated realitiesHortense Calisher''s second novel is a multigenerational story of art, family, and marriage. Opening with Liz and David''s wedding and chronicling the first four years of their life …
New Yorkers
A Novel
E-bok, 2013
131 kr
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A sprawling, multicharacter masterpiece of guilt and the hope for redemptionOpening in 1943 and spanning over a decade, The New Yorkers is Hortense Calisher''s most ambitious novel. Judge Simon Mannix, a well-educated upper-middle-class New Yorker, is faced with a terrible decision when his …
Queenie
A Novel
E-bok, 2013
131 kr
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A cheeky portrait of an old-fashioned young woman''s assimilation into the modern worldSet in 1960s New York, this piquant coming-of-age story concerns a teenage girl, Queenie, raised to become a "kept woman" in an exceedingly comfortable and well-adjusted—yet insular and retrograde—household. …
Standard Dreaming
A Novella
E-bok, 2013
131 kr
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A unique novel of parents and children—and the spaces between themDr. Niels Berners—a Swiss plastic surgeon living in New York—is struggling to recover from his dysfunctional son''s abandonment of him. He joins a group of four other parents, all with absent children either in jail or in jeopardy, …
Eagle Eye
A Novel
E-bok, 2013
31 kr
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Hortense Calisher’s complex exploration of the journey of a young man whose intelligent observations cannot help him figure out his own direction Returning home to New York from Europe on his twenty-first birthday, draft-dodging narrator Bunty Bronstein is frustrated with his increasingly pompous …
On Keeping Women
A Novel
E-bok, 2013
131 kr
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A complex masterpiece that reveals the mind of a contemporary woman beyond the confines of family, love, and duty to one''s selfLexie, a married woman with four children, undergoes a midlife crisis and questions her role as wife, mother, and lover. From within a Victorian house in the Hudson River …
Mysteries of Motion
A Novel
E-bok, 2013
33 kr
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Hortense Calisher''s excursion into science fiction: A rich portrait of the passengers aboard the first civilian space shuttleThe Citizen Courier is headed toward Island US, "the first public habitat in space." Aboard the ship resides a collection of diverse travelers. Narrator Tom Gilpin is a rich …
Bobby-Soxer
A Novel
E-bok, 2013
131 kr
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Hortense Calisher''s revelatory novel of celebrity, small-town values, and a young woman''s coming of ageFamous playwright Craig Towle has decided to return to his New Jersey hometown, a suburb of New York City. He arrives with his world-renowned reputation and a new wife who is half his age. It is …
In the Slammer with Carol Smith
A Novel
E-bok, 2013
131 kr
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A finely observed and lovingly detailed portrait of a woman attempting to find a community and understand her own troubled historyAfter 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 …
Herself
An Autobiographical Work
E-bok, 2013
29 kr
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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 …
Kissing Cousins
A Memory
E-bok, 2013
31 kr
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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 …
In the Slammer with Carol Smith
Inbunden, 1997
232 kr
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One afternoon in the early seventies Carol is sent out for Chinese food, and, while she is away, the explosive device which her revolutionary student friends are busy constructing, accidentally goes off, causing enormous damage. Her friends get away - she is incarcerated. Twenty years later, she …
