Spine slightly slanted, one corner slightly bumped. DJ has 1/4"tear at back flap, very minor shelfwear. A clean attractive copy.
"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."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Title: Herself: An Autobiographical Work
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0877950423
ISBN-13: 9780877950424
Illustrator: Illustrated by Bacon, Paul (cover)
Location Published: New York, Arbor House: 1972
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Categories: Biography/Autobiography
Seller ID: 004535
Keywords: autobiography hortense calisher writer the big apple 1930s new york city
