Age
Subtitle: A Love Story
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
Published: March 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780714530123
Subjects: Modern fiction; Romance; Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.); Calisher, Hortense - Prose & Criticism; Fiction - General; Fiction; Married people; General; Domestic fiction; Greenwich Village (New York, N; Older people
Description: Rupert is an honored American poet; Gemma a retired architect. They live happily and comfortably in a Greenwich Village apartment; the setting, for over thirty years, of their married life. Each with a previous marriage behind them - which left her with two daughters and him with the promise of greatness - they are now facing the challenge of old age together. Both, in their own way, defy the inevitability of death, and yet both are busy preparing for it.

The alternating entries of their private journals, which make up the body of Calisher's text, tell a story of familiarity and the fear of loss, love and uncertainty of the future, meanings and habits. With rare verve and panache, Hortense Calisher has confronted a difficult and often neglected subject - and has triumphed magnificently.