. . "Fiction." . . "Short stories." . . "LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General" . . "FICTION / Literary." . . "Hortense Calisher delivers another collection of provocative prose, on par with that of Henry James and John UpdikeA novella plus twelve short vignettes, Tale for the Mirror demonstrates Hortense Calisher's masterful use of language in an exploration of the human condition. In the title novella, a suburban man in the Hudson River Valley analyzes his life and discovers the importance of stories after a sage Indian mystic moves into his neighborhood.Laced with wit and pathos, the evocative shorter pieces include the galvanizing \"The Scream on Fifty-seventh Street,\" a textured tale of a widow who."@en . "Fiction"@en . . . . . . . "Tale for the mirror : A novella and other stories" . "A novella and twelve other unsentimental and sometimes humorous stories illustrating the pathos of modern life. Three of them deal with aspects of human loneliness." . . . . . . . "Tale for the Mirror. A novella and other stories"@en . . . . "Tale for the mirror a novella and other stories"@en . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Tale for the mirror : a novella and other stories" . "Tale for the mirror : a novella and other stories"@en . . "Tale for the Mirror A Novella and Other Stories"@en . "Tale for the mirror" . "Tale for the mirror"@en . "Tale for the mirror, a novella and other stories" .