Topic: Cynthia Ozick

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0 Fiction . Alone With You: Stories, by Marisa Silver (Simon & Schuster; $22). Silver is an ambitious realist, and she is able to breathe life into...
To retell someone else's story is an honourable literary practice with a pedigree dating back at least to Chaucer. Henry James's Washington Square...

Trust

Aspects of the topic Trust are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Her first novel, Trust (1966), is the story of a woman's rejection of her wealthy American Jewish family and her search for her renegade father in Europe.

'Foreign Bodies,' by Cynthia Ozick

0 View Larger Image Foreign Bodies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 255 pages; $26) . In the roiling pond that is American culture, the enterprise of ...

Bloodshed and Three Novellas

Aspects of the topic Bloodshed and Three Novellas are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Assorted References discussed in biography (in Cynthia Ozick (American author)) .

The Puttermesser Papers

Aspects of the topic The Puttermesser Papers are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Assorted References discussed in biography (in Cynthia Ozick (American author)) .

Heir to the Glimmering World

Aspects of the topic Heir to the Glimmering World are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Assorted References discussed in biography (in Cynthia Ozick (American author)) .

Cynthia Ozick

April 17, 1928, New York, N.Y., U.S.), American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and intellectual whose works seek to define the challenge of remaining Jewish in contemporary American life. In subsequent books, such as Bloodshed and Three Novellas (1976), Ozick struggled ...

A late run on the rails

A late run on the rails THE BEAR BOY by Cynthia Ozick Weidenfeld, All of a sudden, there is a buzz about Cynthia Ozick. Her last novel, The Puttermesser Papers, was never published in the UK at all, despite critical acclaim in ...