Sunday Jews"Wonderful. An old-fashioned family saga, with plot twists worthy of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda." --The New York Times Book Review "A rare fictional exploration of a great and disturbing theme. --The Washington Post Book World "Summons a genuinely affecting lyrical elegiac voice, celebrating lives and ways of life as they pass into something else." --Newsday "Like Edith Wharton and Henry James, Hortense Calisher finds the drama of fiction as much in the analysis of motive as in the various excitements of action... Majestically persistent, with an old-fashioned faith in the novel's ability to make worlds." --Publishers Weekly "Sunday Jews is a summa, and a triumph... This incandescent elegy to age, change, and acceptance burns with an urgency that seems to have pared Calisher's often-reviled ornate style down to taut, focused simplicity and purity. She has often before written as fervently, even as generously, but she has never written better." --Kirkus Reviews |
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