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Mysteries of Motion

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Hortense Calisher's excursion into science fiction: A rich portrait of the passengers aboard the first civilian space shuttleThe 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 ... Altre info

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Hortense Calisher's excursion into science fiction: A rich portrait of the passengers aboard the first civilian space shuttleThe 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
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On Keeping Women

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di Hortense Calisher ...

A complex masterpiece that reveals the mind of a contemporary woman beyond the confines of family, love, and duty to one's selfLexie, 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 ... Altre info

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A complex masterpiece that reveals the mind of a contemporary woman beyond the confines of family, love, and duty to one's selfLexie, 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
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Extreme Magic

Eight Stories and a Novella

di Hortense Calisher ...

The recognition of failure and success is the theme of these eight short stories and the title novella from three-time National Book Award finalist Hortense CalisherExtreme 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." ... Altre info

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The recognition of failure and success is the theme of these eight short stories and the title novella from three-time National Book Award finalist Hortense CalisherExtreme 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."
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Textures of Life

A Novel

di Hortense Calisher ...

A study in motives, conflicts, ambitions, and fears as idealistic young newlyweds face unanticipated realitiesHortense 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 ... Altre info

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A study in motives, conflicts, ambitions, and fears as idealistic young newlyweds face unanticipated realitiesHortense 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
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Eagle Eye

A Novel

di Hortense Calisher ...

Hortense Calisher's complex exploration of the journey of a young man whose intelligent observations cannot help him figure out his own directionReturning 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 ... Altre info

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Hortense Calisher's complex exploration of the journey of a young man whose intelligent observations cannot help him figure out his own directionReturning 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
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Journal from Ellipsia

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di Hortense Calisher ...

A humorous satire and loving tribute to science fiction that delves into the tenuous relationship between science and the humanities by asking, What does it mean to be human?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 ... Altre info

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A humorous satire and loving tribute to science fiction that delves into the tenuous relationship between science and the humanities by asking, What does it mean to be human?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
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Standard Dreaming

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di Hortense Calisher ...

A unique novel of parents and children—and the spaces between themDr. 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 ... Altre info

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A unique novel of parents and children—and the spaces between themDr. 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
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The Bobby-Soxer

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Hortense Calisher's revelatory novel of celebrity, small-town values, and a young woman's coming of ageFamous 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 ... Altre info

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Hortense Calisher's revelatory novel of celebrity, small-town values, and a young woman's coming of ageFamous 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
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La Reine Hortense en Italie, en France et en Angleterre pendant l'année 1831

Extraits de ses mémoires inédits écrits par elle-même

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La Reine Hortense en Italie, en France et en Angleterre pendant l'année 1831 est un témoignage précieux qui mélange autobiographie et récit de voyage. À travers un style à la fois fluide et riche, Hortense de Beauharnais évoque son périple entre ces trois pays, offrant une perspective unique sur la vie royaliste à cette époque post-napoléonienne. Le texte se déroule dans un contexte historique ... Altre info

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La Reine Hortense en Italie, en France et en Angleterre pendant l'année 1831 est un témoignage précieux qui mélange autobiographie et récit de voyage. À travers un style à la fois fluide et riche, Hortense de Beauharnais évoque son périple entre ces trois pays, offrant une perspective unique sur la vie royaliste à cette époque post-napoléonienne. Le texte se déroule dans un contexte historique
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The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher

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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 ... Altre info

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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
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The New Yorkers

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A sprawling, multicharacter masterpiece of guilt and the hope for redemptionOpening 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 ... Altre info

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A sprawling, multicharacter masterpiece of guilt and the hope for redemptionOpening 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
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La reine Hortense en Italie, en France et en Angleterre pendant l'année 1831

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Dans "La reine Hortense en Italie, en France et en Angleterre pendant l'année 1831", l'auteur retrace le voyage marquant de Hortense de Beauharnais, reine des Pays-Bas et fille de Joséphine, à travers trois pays européens. Ce récit témoigne non seulement des péripéties de ce périple, mais également d'une analyse profonde des relations entre la royauté et les divers courants politiques de l'époque. ... Altre info

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Dans "La reine Hortense en Italie, en France et en Angleterre pendant l'année 1831", l'auteur retrace le voyage marquant de Hortense de Beauharnais, reine des Pays-Bas et fille de Joséphine, à travers trois pays européens. Ce récit témoigne non seulement des péripéties de ce périple, mais également d'une analyse profonde des relations entre la royauté et les divers courants politiques de l'époque.
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