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Journal from Ellipsia: A Novel Kindle Edition

by Hortense Calisher (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A humorous satire and loving tribute to science fiction that delves into the tenuous relationship between science and the humanities by asking, What does it mean to be human?
A genderless alien from Ellipsia, a planet whose inhabitants have no concept of individuality, comes to Earth on an intergalactic exchange program to learn how to become human. To live here, the traveler must study and understand our inclinations for seeing people as distinct beings—the nature of gender, and at the heart of identity, the word I. At once funny and serious, Journal from Ellipsia offers a starkly objective view on our own humanity.
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  2. Language
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  4. Publisher
    Open Road Media
  5. Publication date
    August 6, 2013
  6. File size
    1532 KB
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“Undoubtedly the best science fiction novel of 1965 . . . suspenseful, poignant, philosophical . . . builds to a climax, and then sustains it.” —The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
“A brilliant comedy of other-worldly manners.” —Saturday Review

About the Author

Hortense Calisher (1911–2009) was born in New York City. The daughter of a young German-Jewish immigrant mother and a somewhat older Jewish father from Virginia, she graduated from Barnard College in 1932 and worked as a sales clerk before marrying and moving to Nyack, New York, to raise her family. Her first book, a collection of short stories titled In the Absence of Angels, appeared in 1951. She went on to publish two dozen more works of fiction and memoir, writing into her nineties.A past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of PEN, the worldwide association of writers, she was a National Book Award finalist three times, won an O. Henry Award for “The Night Club in the Woods” and the 1986 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for The Bobby Soxer, and was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1952 and 1955.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00DZEJU90
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (August 6, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 6, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1532 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 418 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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2.0 out of 5 stars This isnt what I thought
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2021
This book is like reading personal abstract poetry and not understanding what or how the person is feeling. The synopsis, which doesn't give u a real idea about the book, is the only reason i cld figure out anything that was being written. While the words are a lot pretty comparisons of everything written. It is an annoying book and I did not enjoy it at all.
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