New Yorkers by Hortense Calisher
The New Yorkers by Hortense Calisher. 1988 Weidenfeld & Nicolson reprint (c/r 1966), 559 pages. Calisher was an accomplished short-story writer and novelist who defied categorization, and published many stories in the New Yorker. According to the NYT "Failure and isolation were themes that ran through her 23 novels and short-story collections: failure of love, marriage, communication, identity. She explored the isolation within families that cannot be avoided yet cannot be faced, isolation imposed by wounds inflicted even in the happiest of households, wounds that shape events for generations." The New Yorkers is one of her best-known works.
Condition: Good+ used copy, wear to cover
"All this lore, mixed with family ecology, European tours and Sunday afternoon anecdote as suited to the age and relationship of the hearer, was know to various degrees to all the inhabitants of the Mannix House."
The New Yorkers by Hortense Calisher. 1988 Weidenfeld & Nicolson reprint (c/r 1966), 559 pages. Calisher was an accomplished short-story writer and novelist who defied categorization, and published many stories in the New Yorker. According to the NYT "Failure and isolation were themes that ran through her 23 novels and short-story collections: failure of love, marriage, communication, identity. She explored the isolation within families that cannot be avoided yet cannot be faced, isolation imposed by wounds inflicted even in the happiest of households, wounds that shape events for generations." The New Yorkers is one of her best-known works.
Condition: Good+ used copy, wear to cover
"All this lore, mixed with family ecology, European tours and Sunday afternoon anecdote as suited to the age and relationship of the hearer, was know to various degrees to all the inhabitants of the Mannix House."