Harvard Class Of 1932

Calisher, Hortense: The New Yorkers - A Novel, Boston, MA Little, Brown & Company 1969
ISBN: 0-316-12461-3 Fine in Fine Dust Jacket Dust Jacket Design By Paul Bacon

First Edition. xii, 564pp. Rust brown cloth, gilt spine lettering, gilt spine decoration and black ink label, blindstamped publisher emblem front cover, light brown endpapers. Dust jacket price 7.95. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to half-title page. " Hortense Calisher (born New York City December 20, 1911) is an American writer of fiction. A graduate of Barnard College (1932), she was the daughter of a young German immigrant and an older father from a Southern family she described as "volcanic to meditative to fruitfully dull, and bound to produce someone interested in character, society, and time" (Tattoo for a Slave), she has involved her closely investigated, penetrating characters in complicated plotlines that unfold with shocks and surprises in allusive, nuanced language with a distinctively elegiac voice, sometimes compared with Eudora Welty, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and Henry James. Critics generally consider Calisher a type of neo-realist, and often she is both condemned and praised for her extensive explorations of characters and their social worlds. Calisher was definitely at odds with the prevailing writing style of minimalism that characterized fiction writing in the 1970s and 1980s and that emphasized a sparse, non-romantic style with no room for expressionism or romanticism. As an anti-minimalist, she is still admired for her elliptical style in which more is hinted at than stated, and she is also praised as a social realist and critic in the vein of Honore Balzac and Edith Wharton. A past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of PEN, the worldwide association of writers, she has been a National Book Award finalist three times and has won an O. Henry Award (for "The Night Club in the Woods") as well as being awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1952 and 1955. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1989. As a visiting professor, she taught at twelve universities, including Brown, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Brandeis, Stanford, and was Regents' Professor at the University of California in 1977." - wikipedia. " In a New York brownstone, a pitiable murder is committed, and concealed. A great Jewish clan and their hangers-on live with this. In sight of all New York. Under the vivid light of a city's past and future, The Judge, his beautiful wife, their son and daughter,are locked in marvelous combat, in a drama whose echoes are eternal. Father and son are of a middle class brutally for and against itself, in war or peace.The women are uncanny sibyls of their era... All look for answers in open or secret sexual life ...They are mesmerizing people, to others in their story, and to us. Watching - among lovers, friends, servants, gangsters, rapists - are the young heir of a powerful New York Christian clan; a tiny enchantress, head of London's Royal Ballet; an extraordinary boy rescued from the lowest depths and sent to class="keyword">Harvard, who becomes house protege and witness. Outside - on the great social staircase of the city - are the Courts and Clubs, and a ninety-year-old jurist; the lower East Side, and a strange mother and son; the Psyche's underworld of the ballet ; a hilarious Paris sex-shop. And from basement to mansion, in all its private-public story : New York. THE NEW YORKERS is not only a masterwork of suspense, but an infinitely rich novel of modern life. Dickens, prowling its streets. would see a crowd of humanity akin to his. Proust, entering the minds and beds of its men and women, would recognize their realities. A great urban storyteller is among us. The soul of a city, in all its continuity, is here." - dust jacket flaps. Book and dust jacket are in fine, very tight, unread condition [small, unobtrusive crease to front flap top corner]. No remainder markings. Uncommon signed. Signed by Author First Edition Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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class="keyword">Harvard University. Class of 1912: class="keyword">Harvard College, Class of 1912; 20th Anniversary Report (No. 5) Printed for the Class, Cosmos Press 1932
Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.

1st Edition. Description: xiii, 313 p. 24 cm. Subjects: class="keyword">Harvard University. Class of 1912. Anniversary Report. 20th Anniversary. 313 p.

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class="keyword">Harvard College: class="keyword">Harvard College Class of 1912 Twentieth Anniversary Report No 5, 1932
8vo, 313

Hardbound The book is in very good condition., green

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