A Cynthia Ozick Reader

by Cynthia Ozick, Elaine M Kauvar (Editor)

Offers seven poems, seven works of fiction, including an excerpt from the author's novel "Trust," and eight essays that discuss such authors as Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Henry James, feminism, and other topics

Genres: Essays, Fiction, Short Stories

322 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1996

About the author

Recipient of the first Rea Award for the Short Story (in 1976; other winners Rea honorees include Lorrie Moore, John Updike, Alice Munro), an American Academy of Arts and Letters Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award, and the PEN/Malamud award in 2008.

Upon publication of her 1983 The Shawl, Edmund White wrote in the New York Times, "Miss Ozick strikes me as the best American writer to have emerged in recent years...Judaism has given to her what Catholicism gave to Flannery O'Connor."

Reviews

[David Kuhnlein · Rating 5 out of 5]

An exceptional collection of poems, stories, a novel excerpt, and essays, each surprisingly structured, employing beautifully evocative and lyrical language. A library of her in miniature. Cynthia Ozick is a sensation.

Was introduced to her in school, as many of us are, by way of "The Shawl." No, she's no one-hit wonder.

[Lukia · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was completely rapt reading Ozick’s short stories and criticism. Her mind is as playful as it is serious & self-assured. Even if I do not always agree with her opinions, her literary modes are always interesting, gently provocative & funny. “Virility,” “Puttermesser and Xanthippe” & “The Lesson of the Master” are the standouts.