The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher
Serious and literary fiction, Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
Finalist for the National Book Award: Thirty-six stories by O. Henry Award–winning novelist Hortense CalisherThe 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.&”