Background
Ozick, Cynthia was born on April 17, 1928 in New York City. Daughter of William and Celia (Regelson) Ozick.
(This story deals with the Holocaust, obsession with schol...)
This story deals with the Holocaust, obsession with scholarly arcana, mental imbalance and the lives of outsiders. This book chronicles the life of Rose Meadows, who works as a nanny/secretary to the Mitwisser clan. Rudolf, heads this large family of refugees from Nazi Germany. Rudolf is a scholar of an obscure ancient Jewish sect, the Karaites. Rudolf needs access to the public library in Manhattan, so they move from upstate New York to the Bronx. Anneliese is the oldest of the four children and almost the same age as Rose, is in charge of the day-to-day functioning of the family because her mother, a renowned physicist, suffers from pronounced mental deterioration which was brought on by persecution in Germany. James A'Bair is the family's wealthy benefactor, and comes and goes on his own schedule. He is the subject of a popular series of children's books written by his father. James, sinister and strangely destructive, he is also known as the "Bear Boy,". He dominates the last half of the book.
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(A collection of 21 essays on writers, including Henry Jam...)
A collection of 21 essays on writers, including Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Saul Bellow, Edith Wharton, J.M. Coetzee, Primo Levi, Italo Calvino, Truman Capote, Theodore Dreiser, William Gaddis, I.B. Singer, Gershom Scholem, Bruno Schulz, Gertrude Kolmar and S.Y. Agnon
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(This collection of novellas by Cynthia Ozick includes wor...)
This collection of novellas by Cynthia Ozick includes works such as "Bloodshed", where a sermon detailing biblical sacrifice touches its contemporary skeptical hero, and "Usurpation", a group of stories within stories in which the ghost of the poet Tchernikhovsky appears.
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(Cynthia Ozick has won many accolades, including the Natio...)
Cynthia Ozick has won many accolades, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Heir to the Glimmering World is a highly atmospheric novel set in New York in the 1930s. When a young woman becomes assistant to a German professor living in the Bronx, she must find her place in his chaotic household and learn to navigate the eccentric generosity of his benefactor, an aging Christopher Robin.
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( ""Ozick's range of influences is obvious in the fine se...)
""Ozick's range of influences is obvious in the fine selections of poems and short stories as well as essays from Art & Ardor (1983) and Metaphor and Memory (1989) that Kauvar has so sensitively chosen."" --Booklist ""This collection reflects the imaginative, inventive, and insightful Ozick. Some of the best of Ozick as poet, essayist, and fiction writer is represented in A Cynthia Ozick Reader."" --Library Journal ""Gathered here are some bristling, incandescent tales and thorny essays that show Ozick at her finest."" --The Seattle Times Cynthia Ozick is among the ten most important writers in North America today. This Reader brings her manifold talents together in a sampler of the many genres she explores. The poems, stories, and essays in this collection burst with all the energy of her capacious imagination. For those who have always lauded her, the Reader offers a representative selection; those new to Cynthia Ozick's work will revel in the discovery of a major writer.
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( Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge, includi...)
Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge, including one previously unpublished, from the acclaimed author of Heir to the Glimmering World. Cynthia Ozick’s new work of fiction brings together four long stories that showcase this incomparable writer’s sly humor and piercing insight into the human heart. Each starts in the comic mode, with heroes who suffer from willful self-deceit. These not-so-innocents proceed from self-deception to deceiving others, who do not take it lightly. Revenge is the consequence -- and for the reader, a delicious, if dark, recognition of emotional truth. The glorious new novella Dictation” imagines a fateful meeting between the secretaries to Henry James and Joseph Conrad at the peak of their fame. Timid Miss Hallowes, who types for Conrad, comes under the influence of James’s Miss Bosanquet, high-spirited, flirtatious, and scheming. In a masterstroke of genius, Ozick hatches a plot between them to insert themselves into posterity. Ozick is at her most devious, delightful best in these four works, illuminating the ease with which comedy can glide into calamity.
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(A small group of Jews weave a web of intrigue and fantasy...)
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.
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(This collection of short stories by Cynthia Ozick contain...)
This collection of short stories by Cynthia Ozick contains works such as "The Pagan Rabbi", "Virility" and "Envy; or Yiddish in America".
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(After the critical and commercial success of her Orange P...)
After the critical and commercial success of her Orange Prize-shortlisted novel, Foreign Bodies (2012), Atlantic Books is proud to republish what is widely considered to be Cynthia Ozick's masterpiece, The Messiah of Stockholm Lars Andeming, perhaps overly intellectual and certainly eccentric, is the Monday book reviewer for a Stockholm daily. He is also the self-proclaimed son of Bruno Schulz, a Polish writer who was executed by the Nazis before his last novel, The Messiah, could be published. When a manuscript of The Messiah mysteriously appears in Stockholm, in the possession of Schulz's 'daughter', Lars's circumscribed world of paper, apartment, and favorite bookstore turns upside down, catapulting him into a whirlwind of dream, magic, and illusion.
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(A collection of essays that touch on the inner life of li...)
A collection of essays that touch on the inner life of literaure and of the literary artist. Among the subjects covered are childhood's passionate reading; ambition; the decline of the book as a universal habit; the consequences of gender politics; and the deceptions and impersonations of art.
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Ozick, Cynthia was born on April 17, 1928 in New York City. Daughter of William and Celia (Regelson) Ozick.
Bachelor cum laude with honors in English, New York University, 1949. Master of Arts, Ohio State University, 1950. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Yeshiva University, 1984.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hebrew Union College, 1984. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Williams College, 1986. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hunter College, 1987.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Jewish Theological Seminary America, 1988. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Adelphi University, 1988. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), State University of New York, 1989.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Brandeis University, 1990. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Bard College, 1991. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Spertus College, 1991.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Skidmore College, 1992. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Seton Hall University, 1999. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Rutgers University, 1999.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University North Carolina, Asheville, 2000. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), New York University, 2001. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Bar-Ilan University, Israel, 2002.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Balt Hebrew University, 2004. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Georgetown University, 2007.
(After the critical and commercial success of her Orange P...)
(This collection of novellas by Cynthia Ozick includes wor...)
(This collection of novellas by Cynthia Ozick includes wor...)
(A small group of Jews weave a web of intrigue and fantasy...)
( ""Ozick's range of influences is obvious in the fine se...)
( ""Ozick's range of influences is obvious in the fine se...)
( Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge, includi...)
(This collection of short stories by Cynthia Ozick contain...)
(The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971) is the second bo...)
(Cynthia Ozick has won many accolades, including the Natio...)
(A devastating vision of the Holocaust and the unfillable ...)
(This story deals with the Holocaust, obsession with schol...)
(This novel is about the uneasy condition of Jewish herita...)
(This novel is about the uneasy condition of Jewish herita...)
(A collection of five stories which play upon the theme of...)
(A collection of essays that touch on the inner life of li...)
(The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories Paperback - March 21, 1...)
(A collection of 21 essays on writers, including Henry Jam...)
(Puttermesser Papers : A Novel by Cynthia Ozick. Vintage B...)
(Heir to the Glimmering World by Ozick,Cynthia. 2005 Paper...)
(A dazzling collection of essays.)
Phi Beta Kappa orator, Harvard University, 1985. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Authors League, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Dramatists Guild, Académie Universelle des Cultures (Paris), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Bernard Hallote, September 7, 1952. 1 daughter, Rachel Sarah.