FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2010
"This is superb, dazzling fiction. Ozick richly observes and lovingly crafts each character, and every sentence is a tribute to her masterful command of language."
An extraordinary novel, loosely based on
The Ambassadors--but Ozick (
Dictation, 2008, etc.) manages to out-James the master himself.
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FICTION
Released: April 16, 2008
"Playful, teasing, provocative fare from this most accomplished of ironists."
Deceptions and obsessions drive this elegant collection of four stories, three of which have been published in magazines.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 2, 2006
"Erudition lightly worn, eloquence finely crafted."
A veteran novelist (
Heir to the Glimmering World, 2004, etc.) and essayist (
Quarrel and Quandary: Essays, 2000, etc.) expatiates on the lives and works of literary figures as diverse as Helen Keller and Isaac Babel, Sylvia Plath and Azar Nafisi.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2004
"Perhaps the fullest fictional treatment yet of the European intellectual's flight from Hitler's Germany--to safety, and, ironically, to inconsequence--in America. One of Ozick's most interesting and challenging books."
A family of German Jewish refugees, the orphaned girl who becomes their servant, and the troubled son of a children's author coexist uneasily in Ozick's fifth novel (
The Puttermesser Papers, 1997, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2000
"Ozick is perceptive as usual, but these often seem like old war-horses revisiting familiar battlefields."
Ozick's new collection of essays from such magazines as
The New Republic and
The American Scholar thoughtfully explores the delicately calibrated and often adversarial tensions that affect the relation between art and politics.
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 1997
From the author of The Messiah of Stockholm (1987), and other highly praised novels, a gathering of previously published stories and their newer counterparts, comprising a fictional biography of the remarkable character whom it's tempting to proclaim Ozick's alter ego.
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