{ "item_title" : "The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher", "item_author" : [" "], "item_description" : "Finalist for the National Book Award: Thirty-six stories by O. Henry Award–winning novelist Hortense Calisher The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher gathers short pieces that chart the author's best-loved themes of mindful consciousness and social worlds. This collection includes one of her well-known New Yorker stories, In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks, in which a young man drops his mother off at a sanitarium and acquires a new friend who finally awakens him to the world. Also included are The Sound of Waiting, one of the chapters in the Elkin family saga; the chilling, Jamesian The Scream on Fifty-seventh Street, in which a New York widow hears a scream late one night but cannot decide how to investigate without appearing to her neighbors to have gone mad; and the nearly novella-length The Summer Rebellion.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers2/ebook/88/73/9781480437388_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "10.10", "our_price" : "10.10", "club_price" : "10.10", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "club_savings_amt" : "0", "club_savings_pct" : "0" } }

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