The New Yorkers

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480438941

<DIV><b>A sprawling, multicharacter masterpiece of guilt and the hope for redemption</b></div><DIV></div><DIV><BR>Opening in 1943 and spanning over a decade, <i>The New Yorkers</i> is Hortense Calisher&rsquo;s most ambitious novel. Judge Simon Mannix, a well-educated upper-middle-class New Yorker, is faced with a terrible decision when his unfaithful wife is accidentally shot and killed by their twelve-year-old daughter. Mannix insists upon keeping the truth a secret, claiming that the death was a suicide, as he attempts to save his child from a life of psychological trauma. Shame accumulates in his consciousness, and Mannix finds himself obsessed with the nuances of guilt.</div><BR>Calisher weaves a complex tapestry of closely observed human behaviors and emotions, accentuated by a collection of fragmented portraits of the lives that intersect with those of the judge and his daughter.&#160;&#160;