Hortense Calisher, Author . Harcourt $28 (704p) ISBN 978-0-15-100930-5
Like Edith Wharton and Henry James, Hortense Calisher finds the drama of fiction as much in the analysis of motive as in the various excitements of action. Her newest novel might be said to have a Wharton-ish feel to it—if, that is, Wharton...
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Hortense Calisher, Author . Harcourt $24 (324p) ISBN 978-0-15-101096-7
While Calisher devotees will certainly be eager for this latest version of her memoirs, first-timers may find themselves somewhat lost. Calisher (Sunday Jews
, etc.), now 92, lays out the book's burden in the first sentence, when her father...
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Hortense Calisher, Author Marion Boyars Publishers $25.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-7145-3020-8
Veteran short-story writer and novelist Calisher continues to surprise with the breadth of her knowledge of how we live now and with her supple, ever-fresh writing. Carol Smith, her enormously bright and winning protagonist, is a woman of color...
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Hortense Calisher, Author Doubleday Books $17.95 (281p) ISBN 978-0-385-18426-7
At times ponderous, always powerful, Calisher's 10th novel explores the twisted secretspast and presentof a family living in a small New Jersey town. Through the consciousness of a young actress (who stands six feet, three inches tall), the reader...
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Hortense Calisher, Author George Weidenfeld & Nicholson $0 (121p) ISBN 978-1-55584-132-4
The animating idea behind Calisher's slender new novelan elderly couple's coming to terms with the inevitability of their deathis a worthy theme. And the fictional materials meant to give it substance here seem promising, even exotic. Gemma is a...
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Hortense Calisher, Author Grove/Atlantic $14.95 (118p) ISBN 978-1-55584-194-2
Calisher's ``kissing cousin''part of her family in every respect except bloodwas spunky Katie Pyle, the girl with ``brown teacup eyes.'' When the author, a cheerfully arrogant 15-year-old born to a Southern Jewish family, had trouble coping in tough
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Hortense Calisher, Author Random House (NY) $25 (423p) ISBN 978-0-679-41574-9
The author of Mysteries of Motion offers in her new novel a ponderous study of what it means to be a dissident. Internationally known film director Paul Gonchev grew up in Japan, the son of Russian parents. Hired by the Albanian government, he...
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