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Tale for the Mirror
Hortense Calisher
其他書名
A Novella and Other Stories
出版
Open Road Media
, 2013-09-17
主題
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
1480438928
9781480438927
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cZ2IAAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Hortense Calisher delivers another collection of provocative prose, on par with that of Henry James and John Updike
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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 suburban man in the Hudson River Valley analyzes his life and discovers the importance of stories after a sage Indian mystic moves into his neighborhood./divDIV
Laced with wit and pathos, the evocative shorter pieces include the galvanizing “The Scream on Fifty-seventh Street,” a textured tale of a widow who overhears an incident outside her window, compelling her to solve a mystery while coming to terms with her own loneliness in an unsentimental city. “The Rehabilitation of Ginevra Leake” is the farcical story of a homely girl from a proper Southern family who finds a home in the Communist party. In “The Seacoast of Bohemia,” a successful Manhattan man comes to terms with the fact that he’ll never have children./div
Tale for the Mirror
peers into private lives with precision and perception, as only Hortense Calisher could.