On Keeping Women by Hortense Calisher
On Keeping Women by Hortense Calisher. 1979 Berkley edition, 313 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." Calisher explores these themes on the the banks of Hudson River in this mid-career novel.
Condition: VG
"So be it sister."
On Keeping Women by Hortense Calisher. 1979 Berkley edition, 313 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." Calisher explores these themes on the the banks of Hudson River in this mid-career novel.
Condition: VG
"So be it sister."