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Books by Cynthia Ozick
  | | Heir To The Glimmering World Pa(Reprint) by Cynthia Ozick Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2005 by Mariner Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-618-61880-4, ISBN: 0-618-61880-5 "Cynthia Ozick is an American master at the height of her powers in Heir to the Glimmering World, a grand romantic novel of desire, fame, fanaticism, and unimaginable reversals of fortune. Ozick takes us to the outskirts of the Bronx in the 1930s, as New York fills with Europe’s ousted dreamers, turned overnight into refugees. Rose Meadows unknowingly enters this world when she answers an ambiguous want ad for an "assistant" to a Herr Mi ..." |
 | | Quarrel & Quandary(1st Edition) Essays by Cynthia Ozick Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2001 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-72445-9, ISBN: 0-375-72445-1 ""True essayists," declares Cynthia Ozick, "rarely write novels." This pronouncement would seem to overlook a horde of ambidextrous types, from John Updike to Gore Vidal to Charles Baxter to Joyce Carol Oates--and, of course, Ozick herself. The author of three novels, she is also among our finest essayists, combining a Jamesian nose for moral nuance with some of the most playful and pugnacious prose in contemporary letters. And h ..." |
 | | Metaphor & Memory(Reprint) by Cynthia Ozick Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 1991 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73425-3, ISBN: 0-679-73425-2 "From the author of The Messiah of Stockholm and Art and Ardor comes a new collection of supple, provocative, and intellectually dazzling essays. In Metaphor & Memory, Cynthia Ozick writes about Saul Bellow and Henry James, William Gaddis and Primo Levi. She observes the tug-of-war between written and spoken language and the complex relation between art's contrivances and its moral truths. She has given us an exceptional book that demons ..." |
 | | The Shawl(Reprint) by Cynthia Ozick Paperback, 69 Pages, Published 1990 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-72926-6, ISBN: 0-679-72926-7 "A short story and a novella intertwine to offer a study of the Holocaust and its aftermath as Rosa Lublin witnesses the brutal death of her baby daughter in a concentration camp and, thirty years later, must struggle to cope with her ..." |
 | | Foreign Bodies(Reprint) by Cynthia Ozick Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2011 by Mariner Books Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-547-57749-4, ISBN: 0-547-57749-4 "“An absorbing achievement .º.º. A nimble, entertaining literary homage, but it is also, chillingly, what James would have called ‘the real thing.’”—New York Times Book Review Cynthia Ozick is a literary treasure. In her sixth novel, she retraces Henry James’s The Ambassadors and delivers a brilliant, utterly new American classic. At the center of the story is Bea Nightingale, a fiftyish divorced schoolteacher whose life has been on hold ..." |
 | | The Puttermesser Papers(Reprint) A Novel by Cynthia Ozick Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1998 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-77739-7, ISBN: 0-679-77739-3 "With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life is minimal (she prefers pouring through Plato to romping with married Morris Rappoport). And her fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true - with disastrous consequences for what w ..." |
 | | The Messiah of Stockholm(Reprint) by Cynthia Ozick Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1988 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-394-75694-3, ISBN: 0-394-75694-0 "A small group of Jews weave a web of intrigue and fantasy around a book reviewer's contention that he is the son of Borus Schultz, the legendary Polish writer killed by the Nazis before his magnum opus, THE MESSIAH, could be brought to light." |
 | | Letters of Intent Selected Essays (Hardback) by Cynthia Ozick, Ursula Curtiss Hardcover, 592 Pages, Published 2017 by Atlantic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78649-107-7, ISBN: 1-78649-107-9 "A selection of essays by the acclaimed and beloved writer Cynthia Ozick, collected by David Miller." |
 | | Foreign Bodies. Miss Nightingale in Paris, englische Ausgabe by Cynthia Ozick Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2012 by Atlantic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84887-736-8, ISBN: 1-84887-736-6 "The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale's life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. A plea from her estranged brother gives Bea the excuse to escape lassitude by leaving for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows; but the siren call of Europe threatens to deafen Bea to the dangers of entangling herself in the lives of her brother's family. By one of A ..." |
 | | Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2011 by Atlantic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84887-735-1, ISBN: 1-84887-735-8 |
 | | Foreign Bodies(1st Edition) by Cynthia Ozick Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-547-43557-2, ISBN: 0-547-43557-6 "Cynthia Ozick is one of Americaâs literary treasures. For her sixth novel, she set herself a brilliant challenge: to retell the story of Henry Jamesâs The Ambassadorsthe work he considered his bestbut as a photographic negative, that is the plot is the same, the meaning is reversed. At the core of the story is Bea Nightingale, a fiftyish divorced schoolteacher whose life has been on hold during the many years since her brief marri ..." |
 | | Collected Stories(Updated) by Cynthia Ozick Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Phoenix Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7538-2204-3, ISBN: 0-7538-2204-0 "It is the stories upon which Cynthia Ozick's literary reputation rests. She writes about bitterness, cruelty and compulsion with brutal acuity and tenderness. She has created a timeless collection in which Greek mythology, superstition and the religious and cultural experience of the Jewish diaspora in America collide. The Pagan Rabbi is seduced by a tree sprite after seeing his daughter rescued from drowning by a water sprite. Such ecs ..." |
 | | The Din in the Head(Reprint) by Cynthia Ozick Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 2007 by Mariner Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-618-87258-9, ISBN: 0-618-87258-2 "One of America’s foremost novelists and critics, Cynthia Ozick has won praise and provoked debate for taking on challenging literary, historical, and moral issues. Her new collection of spirited essays focuses on the essential joys of great literature, with particular emphasis on the novel. With razor-sharp wit and an inspiring joie de vivre, she investigates unexpected byways in the works of Leo Tolstoy, Saul Bellow, Helen Keller, Isaa ..." |
 | | Heir to the Glimmering World(Updated) A Novel by Cynthia Ozick Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-618-47049-5, ISBN: 0-618-47049-2 "Cynthia Ozick is an American master at the height of her powers in Heir to the Glimmering World, a grand romantic novel of desire, fame, fanaticism, and unimaginable reversals of fortune. Ozick takes us to the outskirts of the Bronx in the 1930s, as New York fills with Europe’s ousted dreamers, turned overnight into refugees.Rose Meadows unknowingly enters this world when she answers an ambiguous want ad for an "assistant" to a Herr M ..." |
 | | The Puttermesser Papers(1st Edition) by Cynthia Ozick Hardcover, 235 Pages, Published 1997 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-679-45476-2, ISBN: 0-679-45476-4 "Fans of Cynthia Ozick are likely already familiar with Ruth Puttermesser, whose highly educated, unlucky-in-love but rather mystical existence as a Jewish woman in New York City has been chronicled in previously published stories appearing occasionally through the years. The Puttermesser Papers collects the old stories, along with several new ones, combined to create a funny and surreal picaresque narrative, touching upon Puttermesser's ..." |
 | | Portrait of the artist as a bad character(Updated) And other essays on writing (Pimlico) by Cynthia Ozick Paperback, 330 Pages, Published 1996 by Pimlico ISBN-13: 978-0-7126-7484-3, ISBN: 0-7126-7484-5 "Book by Ozick, Cynthia" |
 | | Bloodshed and Three Novellas (Library of Modern Jewish Literature) by Cynthia Ozick Paperback, 178 Pages, Published 1995 by Syracuse University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0352-8, ISBN: 0-8156-0352-5 "The Library of Modern Jewish Literature This series will introduce new readers and reacquaint a past generation of readers to the imaginative literature of ... Cynthia Ozick Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven. Steve Stern Levitation: Five Fictions. Cynthia Ozick O My America! Johanna Kaplan The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories." |
 | | The Cannibal Galaxy (Library of Modern Jewish Literature) by Cynthia Ozick Paperback, 161 Pages, Published 1995 by Syracuse University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0354-2, ISBN: 0-8156-0354-1 "This novel of Ozick's deals with the constant struggle of achieving perfection. The main character, Joseph, is a Jewish-Frenchman living in the middle of America. He had faced many hardships during the first decades of his life. When he finally is able to overcome them and enjoy the blessings of his emancipation, he cannot let go of his own sense of failure. The relationships he has in the latter part of his life are not fufilling becau ..." |
 | | The Best American Essays 1998 by Cynthia Ozick, Robert . Atwan, J. M. Coetze, John Mcphee, Mary Oliver, Andre Dubus, And Others Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1998 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-395-86052-6, ISBN: 0-395-86052-0 "The Best American Essays 1998 features a captivating mix of people and prose, as guest editor Cynthia Ozick shapes a volume around the intricacies of human memory. The reflections and recollections of Saul Bellow, John Updike, Jamaica Kincaid, John McPhee, and Andre Dubus join company with many voices new to the series, as an astonishing variety of writers share their deepest thought on ecstasy and injury, ambition and failure, privacy ..." |
 | | The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick 96 Pages, Published 2021 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-593-31320-6, ISBN: 0-593-31320-8 ""Read this great little book of Cynthia Ozick's: It contains dazzling staggering pages filled with sadness and truth." —Elie Wiesel, Chicago Tribune A devastating vision of the Holocaust and the unfillable emptiness it left in the lives ..." |
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