Ozick, Cynthia (Vol. 7) - Ozick, Cynthia 1928–

Ozick, Cynthia 1928–

Ms Ozick is an award-winning American poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic. Jewish themes, especially of religious traditions and responsibilities, recur in her writing. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 17-20, rev. ed.)

[Cynthia Ozick's Trust is] another story with a Jewish motif…. The heroine—nameless, a symbolic female of the generation brought up on Marxist parents now saddled with all the comforts of the haute bourgeoisie—finally meets her father who has been conveniently paid to stay away from her. The secret the heroine uncovers is not outstanding. What is outstanding is the author's style and literary richness. Miss Ozick has achieved a Jamesian novel with touches of D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce. One of her characters is described as having a "big waxy distinguished skull, disconcertingly like the heavy-chinned head of Henry James." The same might be said of her...

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