The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher

Finalist for the National Book Award: Thirty-six stories by O. Henry Award?winning novelist Hortense Calisher The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher gathers short pieces that chart the author?s best-loved themes of mindful consciousness and social worlds. This collection includes one of her well-known New Yorker stories, ?In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks,? in which a young man drops his mother off at a sanitarium and acquires a new friend who finally awakens him to the world. Also included are ?The Sound of Waiting,? one of the chapters in the Elkin family saga; the chilling, Jamesian ?The Scream on Fifty-seventh Street,? in which a New York widow hears a scream late one night but cannot decide how to investigate without appearing to her neighbors to have gone mad; and the nearly novella-length ?The Summer Rebellion.?