A complex masterpiece that reveals the mind of a contemporary woman beyond the confines of family, love, and duty to one's self Lexie, a married woman with four children, undergoes a midlife crisis and questions her role as wife, mother, and lover. From within a Victorian house in the Hudson River Valley, Lexie dissects her life experiences in hopes of gaining a deeper understanding of her unhappiness. Through rich symbolism, lively dialogue, and acute commentary, Hortense Calisher conjures a cohesive map of Lexie's ...
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A complex masterpiece that reveals the mind of a contemporary woman beyond the confines of family, love, and duty to one's self Lexie, a married woman with four children, undergoes a midlife crisis and questions her role as wife, mother, and lover. From within a Victorian house in the Hudson River Valley, Lexie dissects her life experiences in hopes of gaining a deeper understanding of her unhappiness. Through rich symbolism, lively dialogue, and acute commentary, Hortense Calisher conjures a cohesive map of Lexie's personal awakening.
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Poor. First Edition. Signed. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 325. Original publisher's black cloth half bound in red paper and lettered in yellow on spine. Signed presentation on half title page, 'For Malcolm Bradbury, affectionately Hortense'. Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBE (7 September 1932 ñ 27 November 2000) was a British novelist ('The History Man') academic and writer on English and American literature. ISBN: 0877951691 Fine in fine dust wrapper.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Text is a bit light throughout and smudged on a few pages, a publisher's error (still legible), thus very good in a very good proof dust jacket with toning and edgewear. Advance Review Copy with publisher's letter laid in. A novel.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Calisher to author Nicholas Delbanco: "For Nick Delbanco, with all best, Hortense Calisher."
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Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 0877951691. Very slight edge rubbing and a bit of foxing on page edges, in very slightly edge rubbed DJ. Now protected in a mylar jacket.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 325 pages.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) VG Orange hardcover in VG jacket. SIGNED by AUTHOR on title page. Third printing. Light rubbing/scuffing to edges. Light soil to top edge. Break to spine at p.212-213. Pages solid. All text clean and unmarked. Jacket w/lightest of edgewear. Price clipped. Very clean and solid..325 pp. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
