The Bobby-Soxer

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Family Life, Literary
Cover of the book The Bobby-Soxer by Hortense Calisher, Open Road Media
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Author: Hortense Calisher ISBN: 9781480439009
Publisher: Open Road Media Publication: September 17, 2013
Imprint: Open Road Media Language: English
Author: Hortense Calisher
ISBN: 9781480439009
Publisher: Open Road Media
Publication: September 17, 2013
Imprint: Open Road Media
Language: English

Hortense Calisher’s revelatory novel of celebrity, small-town values, and a young woman’s coming of age

Famous playwright Craig Towle has decided to return to his New Jersey hometown, a suburb of New York City. He arrives with his world-renowned reputation and a new wife who is half his age. It is the 1950s, and the new couple raises plenty of eyebrows—in particular, those of the narrator, an adolescent girl who is full of observations, but not judgments. At the center of this layered novel is the narrator’s unconventional family and their odd fixation on Towle, which goes beyond his mere celebrity. The secrets of their past and the potential involvement of Towle in the family’s lineage intertwine in a potentially devastating turn. 

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Hortense Calisher’s revelatory novel of celebrity, small-town values, and a young woman’s coming of age

Famous playwright Craig Towle has decided to return to his New Jersey hometown, a suburb of New York City. He arrives with his world-renowned reputation and a new wife who is half his age. It is the 1950s, and the new couple raises plenty of eyebrows—in particular, those of the narrator, an adolescent girl who is full of observations, but not judgments. At the center of this layered novel is the narrator’s unconventional family and their odd fixation on Towle, which goes beyond his mere celebrity. The secrets of their past and the potential involvement of Towle in the family’s lineage intertwine in a potentially devastating turn. 

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