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Age : a love story
- Title
- Age : a love story / Hortense Calisher.
- Author
- Calisher, Hortense.
- Publication
- New York : Marion Boyars, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3553.A4 A7 1996 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 128 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Rupert is an honored American poet; Gemma a retired architect. They live happily and comfortably in a Greenwich Village apartment; the setting, for over thirty years, of their married life. Each with a previous marriage behind them - which left her with two daughters and him with the promise of greatness - they are now facing the challenge of old age together. Both, in their own way, defy the inevitability of death, and yet both are busy preparing for it.
- The alternating entries of their private journals, which make up the body of Calisher's text, tell a story of familiarity and the fear of loss, love and uncertainty of the future, meanings and habits. With rare verve and panache, Hortense Calisher has confronted a difficult and often neglected subject - and has triumphed magnificently.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Diary fiction.
- ISBN
- 0714530123
- LCCN
- 95026337
- OCLC
- 33668326
- ocm33668326
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries