The Railway Police and The Last Trolley Ride
General fiction, Short stories
Summary
Two novellas from award-winning author Hortense Calisher offering very different journeys the first looking hopefully forward and the second into a painful pastThe 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