Quarrel and Quandary (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
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- Author: Cynthia Ozick
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Art or artists, Jews or Jewish life, Life, philosophy of, Holocaust, Jewish
Cynthia Ozick is a distinguished and respected writer who has excelled in a wide variety of genres, including novels, novellas, short stories, essays, reviews, and literary criticism. Her work has attracted the attention of readers and critics ever since her first book, the novel Trust (1966). Of all her fiction, best known is the widely anthologized Holocaust story “The Shawl” (1980), set in Germany in World War II. The short story was republished in The Shawl (1989) along with the novella Rosa, which depicts the mother years after the events in “The...
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