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Tattoo for a slave

Title: Tattoo for a slave / Hortense Calisher.
Author: Calisher, Hortense.
Publication: Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, [2004], ©2004.

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324 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"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 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 family was an eccentric combination of traditions and tragedies. 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 emigre, her family is characterized by Calisher as "volcanic to meditative to fruitfully dull, and bound to produce someone interested in character, society, and time.""--BOOK JACKET.

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Genre/Form

Autobiographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Jewish fiction.

ISBN

015101096X

LCCN

2004001620

OCLC

ocm54103868
SCSB-5083117

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Columbia University Libraries