The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480437388

<DIV><DIV><b>Finalist for the National Book Award: Thirty-six stories by O. Henry Award&ndash;winning novelist Hortense Calisher</b></div><DIV><i><BR>The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher </i>gathers short pieces that chart the author&rsquo;s best-loved themes of mindful consciousness and social worlds. This collection includes one of her well-known <i>New Yorker</i> stories, &ldquo;In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks,&rdquo; in which a young man drops his mother off at a sanitarium and acquires a new friend who finally awakens him to the world. Also included are &ldquo;The Sound of Waiting,&rdquo; one of the chapters in the Elkin family saga; the chilling, Jamesian &ldquo;The Scream on Fifty-seventh Street,&rdquo; in which a New York widow hears a scream late one night but cannot decide how to investigate without appearing to her neighbors to have gone mad; and the nearly novella-length &ldquo;The Summer Rebellion.&rdquo;</div></div>