Ozick, Cynthia
Ozick, Cynthia( 1928– ),Bronx-born fiction writer and literary critic. Her first novel, Trust (1966), she herself describes as “Jamesian.” She began it after doing a master's thesis on James at Ohio State. The involved plot has a female narrator emotionally abandoned and financially deprived by relatives, who becomes witness to aftershocks of the Holocaust. Her first book of stories, The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971), is about immigrant intellectual Jews in America; The Cannibal Galaxy (1983) is a short novel about a Swedish book reviewer entranced by Judaism and by the discovery of a manuscript of the Polish author Bruno Schulz, a Holocaust victim; The Shawl (1989) contains two novellas. The Puttermesser Papers (1997) is a novel comprising five short pieces of fiction with the brilliant Jewish New Yorker Ruth Pettermesser at their center. American Jews and the Holocaust experience feature in...
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