The Nation, December 1st, 1997
Modern Library. 470 pp. $20.
Hortense Calisher, who was born in 1911 and has been producing highly original and frequently highly acclaimed fiction for half a century, is the odd-woman-out of the contemporary American literary pantheon.
There's no entry for her in the most recent Britannica, and not so much as a mention in Frederick Karl's numbingly comprehensive American Fictions: 1940-1980, published in 1983. One looks in vain through critical studies of novelists and story writers from the fifties to the present day for even token consideration of a writer who has often (if inconsistent...
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