Tattoo for a Slave - Couverture souple

Calisher, Hortense

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156032031 ISBN 13 : 9780156032032

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2005

Synopsis

Tattoo for a Slave Although Calisher's family eventually migrated north to New York City, the echoes of their days as a slave-owning Jewish family in the South still resonate with this acclaimed author, who uncovers a part of history never before so strongly and tenderly revealed.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A "tattoo" is a bugle call, a summoning that lingers in the ear. Although Hortense Calisher's family eventually migrated north to New York City, the echoes of their days as a slave-owning Jewish family in the South still resonate with this acclaimed author, who uncovers a part of history never before so strongly and tenderly revealed.
Calisher traces her family's years in the South and their transformative move up north, beautifully evoking the mood and texture of the early twentieth century. Her Virginia-born father, a perfume manufacturer, was twenty-two years older than her German-born mother. Marked by longer-than-normal gaps between the generations and conflicts between the mercantile and the scholarly, the "American" and the émigré, her family is characterized by Calisher as "volcanic to meditative to fruitfully dull, and bound to produce someone interested in character, society, and time."

Revue de presse :

PRAISE FOR TATTOO FOR A SLAVE

"This is belles-lettres as bete noire: its meaning sneaks up from behind and stuns you by degrees."--The New York Times Book Review

"Calisher's courage and high style would be a marvel at any age."--O, The Oprah Magazine

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0156032031
• ISBN 13: 9780156032032
• Reliure: Paperback
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 336