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Hortense Calisher has been hailed as "stand ing] vividly with Cather and Fitzgerald" (Cynthia Ozick). In this, her latest and most lauded novel, she explores a family united in blood yet divided by ideas. Son Charles hopes to be a Supreme Court justice; family beauty Nell has children by different lovers; art expert Erika has a nose job; and artist Zach has two wives. Their mother, infamous in Israel, born of a well-to-do Boston background but no longer rich, is bound to a past that never quite dies. The buried history of this extraordinary--and very American--family comes to light unexpectedly when grandson Bert brings home as a wife the woman who, years ago, joined the family circle, then mysteriously disappeared. Told with wit and deep acuity, Sunday Jews is a tour de force from a writer whose fiction has justly been compared with that of Eudora Welty and Henry James, and whose ability to delineate our lives is unparalleled.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780156027458
  • ISBN-10: 0156027453
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Publish Date: March 2003
  • Dimensions: 9.04 x 6.1 x 1.25 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
  • Page Count: 712

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