2 Novels by Hortense Calisher
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Overview: Hortense Calisher, born in New York City in 1911, is author of fifteen novels, seven volumes of short fiction, and two memoirs. Her short stories began appearing in The New Yorker in 1948 and quickly became widely anthologized, as well as translated throughout the world. Among her best-known are In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks, Heartburn, The Night Club in the Woods, Il Ploer Da Mo Koer, A Wreath for Miss Totten, The Middle Drawer, and The Scream on Fifty-Seventh Street.
Genre: Fiction > Classic, Literary
Age: A Love Story: A novel that examines aging and marriage with sincerity and insight
Rupert 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, living on instead through his or her words. Age is the narrative of Rupert and Gemma’s lives: their similarities, their differences, and the ways in which the two are irreversibly entwined. Each writes of life’s mundane events—social outings, errands, a quiet night at home—that assume wistful meaning when viewed through the lens of memory.
In the Slammer with Carol Smith: A finely observed and lovingly detailed portrait of a woman attempting to find a community and understand her own troubled history
After 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 winds up squatting in a tattered space in Spanish Harlem. She spends the majority of her vagrant days socializing with her homeless neighbors, arguing with a testy social worker, and wandering the streets with Alphonse, a wayward South African wino and self-professed actor. Alphonse proves to be an inspiring force, and soon Carol is weaning herself off antidepressants as the sifting of her memories—mostly of her upbringing by two aunts in Massachusetts—creates a chance for redemption.
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