Sunday Jews - Couverture souple

Calisher, Hortense

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156027453 ISBN 13 : 9780156027458

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2003

Synopsis

Hortense Calisher has been hailed as "stand[ing] vividly with Cather and Fitzgerald" (Cynthia Ozick). In this, her latest and most lauded novel, she explores a family united in blood yet divided by ideas. Son Charles hopes to be a Supreme Court justice; family beauty Nell has children by different lovers; art expert Erika has a nose job; and artist Zach has two wives. Their mother, infamous in Israel, born of a well-to-do Boston background but no longer rich, is bound to a past that never quite dies. The buried history of this extraordinary--and very American--family comes to light unexpectedly when grandson Bert brings home as a wife the woman who, years ago, joined the family circle, then mysteriously disappeared.

Told with wit and deep acuity, Sunday Jews is a tour de force from a writer whose fiction has justly been compared with that of Eudora Welty and Henry James, and whose ability to delineate our lives is unparalleled.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Hortense Calisher has written more than twenty books. Past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of PEN, she has been a National Book Award finalist three times and has won an O. Henry Award, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0156027453
• ISBN 13: 9780156027458
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 714
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