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"
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"
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"
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 MagazinePRAISE 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
"Offers more than enough reward as it lets family history illuminate . . . a national history."--The Seattle Times
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 family in the South still resonate with this acclaimed author. 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 emigre, her family is characterized by Calisher as "volcanic to meditative to fruitfully dull, and bound to produce someone interested in character, society, and time."
Hortense Calisher is past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and PEN. Three-time finalist for the National Book Award, she is the author of many distinguished novels and short stories. She lives in New York City.
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