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Tattoo for a Slave
by Calisher, Hortense
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 015101096X
- ISBN 13
- 9780151010967
- Seller
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Binghamton, New York, United States
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About This Item
Harcourt, 2004-11-01. Hardcover. Like New. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Near fine in near fine dust jacket. First edition
Synopsis
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 family was an eccentric combination of Jewish and Southern traditions and tragedies. 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."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Robinson Street Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WARE292MG041
- Title
- Tattoo for a Slave
- Author
- Calisher, Hortense
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 015101096X
- ISBN 13
- 9780151010967
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- Date Published
- 2004-11-01
- X weight
- 17 oz
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About the Seller
Robinson Street Books, IOBA
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Binghamton, New York
About Robinson Street Books, IOBA
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