{"product_id":"9781480438927","title":"Tale for the Mirror: A Novella and Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eHortense Calisher delivers another collection of provocative prose, on par with that of Henry James and John Updike\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA novella plus twelve short vignettes, \u003ci\u003eTale for the Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates Hortense Calisher’s masterful use of language in an exploration of the human condition. In the title novella, a suburban man in the Hudson River Valley analyzes his life and discovers the importance of stories after a sage Indian mystic moves into his neighborhood.\u003cbr\u003eLaced with wit and pathos, the evocative shorter pieces include the galvanizing “The Scream on Fifty-seventh Street,” a textured tale of a widow who overhears an incident outside her window, compelling her to solve a mystery while coming to terms with her own loneliness in an unsentimental city. “The Rehabilitation of Ginevra Leake” is the farcical story of a homely girl from a proper Southern family who finds a home in the Communist party. In “The Seacoast of Bohemia,” a successful Manhattan man comes to terms with the fact that he’ll never have children.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTale for the Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e peers into private lives with precision and perception, as only Hortense Calisher could. ","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182756774128,"sku":"9781480438927","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480438927_p0.jpg?v=1763619437","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480438927","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}