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  Hortense Calisher
(1911–2009) was born in New York City. The daughter of a young German-Jewish immigrant mother and a somewhat
older Jewish father from Virginia, she graduated from Barnard College in 1932 and worked as a sales clerk before
marrying and moving to Nyack, New York, to raise her family. Her first book, a collection of short stories titled In the
Absence of Angels, appeared in 1951. She went on to publish two dozen more works of fiction and memoir, writing into her
nineties. A past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of PEN, the worldwide association of writers,
she was a National Book Award finalist three times, won an O. Henry Award for “The Night Club in the Woods”
and the 1986 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for The Bobby Soxer, and was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1952 and
1955.
  
  EXTREME MAGIC
  Extreme Magic is Hortense Calisher’s third collection of shorter
works, after In the Absence of Angels (1951) and Tale for the Mirror (1962). Follow a drifting husband as he returns
home and finds middle age in “A Christmas Carillon.” Listen with a daughter as she overhears a painful
argument between her parents in “The Gulf Between.” Travel with a broken man as he heals after a tragic loss
in “Extreme Magic.” Once again, Calisher captivates with her expressionistic prose and intricate
characters.
  
  COLLECTED STORIES
  The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher gathers short
pieces that chart the author’s best-loved themes of mindful consciousness and social worlds. This collection
includes one of her well-known New Yorker stories, “In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks,” 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 “The Sound of Waiting,” one of the chapters in the Elkin family saga; the chilling, Jamesian
“The Scream on Fifty-seventh Street,” 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 “The
Summer Rebellion.”
  
  FALSE ENTRY
  Pierre Goodman enjoys an idyllic childhood as the son
of a widowed dressmaker in post–World War I England. But paradise is ripped from him at age ten when he and his
mother immigrate to a small town in Alabama. Yearning to regain peace within his own mind and aided by his photographic
memory, he begins falsely but completely enveloping himself in the lives of others. He yearns to become not merely a
listener to the world, but also a singer in its chorus. In doing so, Pierre’s life becomes an extraordinary
document of his time and place as he finds himself a part of history over and over again. He testifies against the Klan
in the Deep South, joins the navy during World War II, experiences love, and eventually finds his way back to England as
an entirely changed man.
  
  JOURNAL FROM ELLIPSIA
  A genderless alien from Ellipsia, a planet
whose inhabitants have no concept of individuality, comes to Earth on an intergalactic exchange program to learn how to
become human. To live here, the traveler must study and understand our inclinations for seeing people as distinct
beings—the nature of gender, and at the heart of identity, the word I. At once funny and serious, Journal from
Ellipsia offers a starkly objective view on our own humanity.
  
  THE RAILWAY POLICE and THE LAST TROLLEY
RIDE
  The characters in these two novellas take introspective, poignant excursions both to where they want to
be (The Railway Police) and where they have been (The Last Trolley Ride). In the first, a woman with hereditary
premature baldness decides to embrace her unadorned head and hopes to start a fresh life without attachments to the
trappings of days gone by. In the second, an elderly man with a working replica of a trolley line in his basement
reminisces about the fateful last ride he took on that very line many years ago. In both stories, Calisher probes the
characters’ senses of isolation from their respective worlds.
  
  THE BOBBY-SOXER
  Famous
playwright Craig Towle has decided to return to his New Jersey hometown, a suburb of New York City. He arrives with his
world-renowned reputation and a new wife who is half his age. It is the 1950s, and the new couple raises plenty of
eyebrows—in particular, those of the narrator, an adolescent girl who is full of observations, but not judgments.
At the center of this layered novel is the narrator’s unconventional family and their odd fixation on Towle,
which goes beyond his mere celebrity. The secrets of their past and the potential involvement of Towle in the
family’s lineage intertwine in a potentially devastating turn.
  
  EAGLE EYE
  Returning
home to New York from Europe on his twenty-first birthday, draft-dodging narrator Bunty Bronstein is frustrated with his
increasingly pompous businessman father and his disaffected mother, who no longer shows the flame she once possessed.
Equipped with an incisive view of bourgeois lifestyles in New York, Bunty observes the shifting sensibilities of his
family members, and yet has difficulty apprehending his own place in the world. Preoccupied with emerging computer
technology, yet unsure of his future and alienated from his once-comfortable family, Bunty remains a compelling,
wandering soul. A male companion piece to Hortense Calisher’s equally expert yet campier Queenie, Eagle Eye
explores the mind of a relatable young man facing dilemmas that are at once universal and singular.
  
 
HERSELF: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORK
  Although Hortense Calisher’s fiction often draws on
autobiographical elements, Herself is a disciplined documentation of the award-winning author’s life and work.
She surveys the various decades and landscapes she has inhabited, mining her family’s Jewish lineage, discussing
her children, exploring her greatest artistic influences, and describing her work process in a brave and bold work of
autobiography. Herself is a rich collage of essays, reviews, recollections, and observations that unite the writer and
the person.
  
  IN THE ABSENCE OF ANGELS
  In this captivating collection of fifteen short
stories, many of which first appeared in the New Yorker, Hortense Calisher’s lyrical prose captures the quotidian
lives of individuals dealing with alienation, loneliness, and assimilation. Highly influenced by her own New York
upbringing, Calisher brings an all-knowing and compassionate verve to these intimate stories. The opening piece,
“In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks,” is an elegantly constructed tale of a man who becomes
particularly introspective after dropping his loving but alcoholic mother off at a sanitarium. In
“Heartburn,” Calisher deftly sketches a time and place through portraits of watering holes that resemble
their own camaraderie-filled communities. The unforgettable title story captures the end of a love affair.
  With
her distinctive language and psychological clarity, Calisher meticulously builds truths through her characters and their
understandings.
  
  THE NEW YORKERS
  Opening in 1943 and spanning over a decade, The New Yorkers
is Hortense Calisher’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. 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.
  
  ON KEEPING WOMEN
  Lexie, a married woman with four children, undergoes a midlife
crisis and questions her role as wife, mother, and lover. From within a Victorian house in the Hudson River Valley,
Lexie dissects her life experiences in hopes of gaining a deeper understanding of her unhappiness. Through rich
symbolism, lively dialogue, and acute commentary, Hortense Calisher conjures a cohesive map of Lexie’s personal
awakening.
  
  STANDARD DREAMING
  Dr. Niels Berners—a Swiss plastic surgeon living in New
York—is struggling to recover from his dysfunctional son’s abandonment of him. He joins a group of four
other parents, all with absent children either in jail or in jeopardy, to discuss their feelings and seek a sense of
community, comfort, and closure. Hortense Calisher artfully strings together tales of healing, brilliantly tracing the
shadow of the generational gap. With compassion and precision, she paints the bruised egos of concerned parents
confronting very empty nests.
  
  TALE FOR THE MIRROR
  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.
  
  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.
 

  TEXTURES OF LIFE
  Hortense Calisher’s second novel is a multigenerational story of art,
family, and marriage. Opening with Liz and David’s wedding and chronicling the first four years of their life
together, Calisher follows the couple through their evolution into erudite, antimaterialist artists. They move into a
sparse downtown Manhattan loft, prideful of their rebellious choice to lead lives unfettered by possessions. As time
passes, they realize that their unbridled optimism is slowly being abraded by the disappointments of reality. With the
ambiguously pleasant news that Elizabeth’s mother and David’s father, both widowed, are finding new love
together, Calisher further explores the couple’s interplay and draws piercing parallels between the idealism of
youth and the sagacity of old age. Textures of Life explores the nature of relationships and the shifts—both
minute and seismic—that affect the power dynamics as Liz and David constantly redefine their roles and opinions
in order to sustain their relationship.
  
  QUEENIE
  Set in 1960s New York, this piquant
coming-of-age story concerns a teenage girl, Queenie, raised to become a “kept woman” in an exceedingly
comfortable and well-adjusted—yet insular and retrograde—household. After enrolling in college, Queenie
confronts new understandings, both personal and political, and gradually becomes cognizant of the dated values imparted
upon her. Bringing her trademark stylishness and a remarkable exuberance to Queenie, Hortense Calisher simultaneously
pays homage to and updates the Victorian storytelling approach in capturing the intellectual and sexual breakthroughs of
a contemporary young woman.
  
  IN THE SLAMMER WITH CAROL SMITH
  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.
  		
  KISSING
COUSINS: A MEMORY
  Kissing Cousins recalls the author as a teenager: peppy, earnest, and a bit self-important.
Hortense Calisher documents her family’s surprising history as Southern Jews adrift in New York. Finding her new
city and school boorish, the young Calisher takes solace in the enduring friendship she develops with Katie Pyle, a
gregarious nurse turned “kissing cousin” fifteen years Calisher’s senior. Katie, an unmarried woman,
possesses her own secret, depicted here with a novelist’s touch for the dramatic. Kissing Cousins tackles matters
of aging, life, and death with the sensitivity and eloquence readers have come to expect from Hortense Calisher.
 
		
  MYSTERIES OF MOTION
  The Citizen Courier is headed toward Island US, “the first public
habitat in space.” Aboard the ship resides a collection of diverse travelers. Narrator Tom Gilpin is a rich
publisher, and he’s joined by fellow journalist Veronica, as well as an industrialist, a Jewish-German expatriate
philosopher, a diplomat and his wife, and the teenage son of a NASA admiral. Revealing a complex, nonlinear narrative
for each of its characters, the iridescent literary sci-fi of Mysteries of Motion captures lives and relationships as
labyrinthine as the space vessel that carries them, channeling intergalactic, philosophical, and psychological
voyages.
  		
  AGE: A LOVE STORY
  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.
  		
  		
  		

  		 
  
  
  
  
  
   						

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