Cynthia Ozick (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Cynthia Ozick’s forte is short fiction, especially the novella; two of her novels, The Cannibal Galaxy and The Puttermessser Papers, were in fact developed from shorter pieces. Many of her stories are collected in the volumes The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971), Bloodshed and Three Novellas (1976), Levitation: Five Fictions (1982), and The Shawl (1989).

Although her reputation primarily depends upon her fiction, Ozick has published dozens of essays, largely dealing with the same theme, that of Jewish...

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