Heir to the Glimmering World (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Cynthia Ozick
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: New York, United States or Americans, Exile or expatriates, World War II, 1930’s, Domestic work or workers, Servants, Germany or German people, Physics or physicists
- Locales: New York
In Heir to the Glimmering World, Cynthia Ozick examines what it means to be an exile or a refugee. The first refugee whom the reader encounters is Rose Meadows, who escapes from the unsettling world of her prevaricating father. Her mother died in childbirth, if she believes her father, or died when Rose was about three, if she trusts her own faint memories. Sent to live with Bertram, a distant cousin, she reluctantly attends a teachers’ college in Albany; she would much prefer to study literature. When Bertram begins an affair with the radical Ninel (Lenin spelled backward),...
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