"This is Hortense Calisher's account of her life-in-progress as a woman and a writer --- and the inseparability of the two in her mind and heart. In this intimate "rediscovery" of herself and those moments of truth that have formed her, Miss Calisher includes her private writings and journals, and begins with her appraisal of the '30s (which she designates the Era of The Big Apple), treats of ego art, gives her views of sex and politics, of writers and writing in an altogether fresh and original way. Herself is a book that in a sense reconstructs by its very shape the life and thought and times it speaks of, because we come to learn of them as she did, and with her remembered feelings and notions --- in the heightened perspective of then and now. Herself is indeed the story of a remarkable woman's life and work in progress, stopping at the end of the past. The future is for later."
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Price: 20.00 USD