Tale for the Mirror

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480438927

<DIV><b>Hortense Calisher delivers another collection of provocative prose, on par with that of Henry James and John Updike</b></div><DIV></div><DIV><BR>A novella plus twelve short vignettes, <i>Tale for the Mirror</i> demonstrates Hortense Calisher&rsquo;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.</div><DIV><BR>Laced with wit and pathos, the evocative shorter pieces include the galvanizing &ldquo;The Scream on Fifty-seventh Street,&rdquo; 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. &ldquo;The Rehabilitation of Ginevra Leake&rdquo; is the farcical story of a homely girl from a proper Southern family who finds a home in the Communist party. In &ldquo;The Seacoast of Bohemia,&rdquo; a successful Manhattan man comes to terms with the fact that he&rsquo;ll never have children.</div><i><BR>Tale for the Mirror</i> peers into private lives with precision and perception, as only Hortense Calisher could.&#160;