20% off all books with the code: BOOKS
  • check 10+ million books
  • check New arrivals every day
  • check Trusted by 1M+ customers
  • check Great prices & discounts
  • check Shipping across Europe

Tattoo for a Slave - Hortense Calisher

English
2005-11-01
€28.13 €35.16

-20% with code BOOKS

In stock at our supplier

Shipping in 15-21 days

30-day return policy

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 m ... Full description

You May Also Like

Description

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 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."

More Information

Author Hortense Calisher
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Release year 2005
Cover type Softcover
EAN 9780156032032
Write Your Own Review
You're reviewing: Tattoo for a Slave
Your Rating:

Goodreads Reviews

€28.13 €35.16