New Releases by Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick is an American master at the height of her powers in Heir to the Glimmering World, a grand romantic novel of desire, fame, fanaticism, and unimaginable reversals of fortune set in the outskirts of the Bronx in the 1930s, a novel of generous delight.--Adapted from front book flap.

Quarrel & Quandary showcases the manifold talents of one of our leading and award-winning critics and essayists. In nineteen opulent essays, Cynthia Ozick probes Dostoevsky for insights into the Unabomber, questions the role of the public intellectual, and dares to wonder what poetry is. She roams effortlessly from Kafka to James, Styron to Stein, and, in the book''s most famous essay, dissects the gaudy commercialism that has reduced Anne Frank to "usable goods." Courageous, audacious, and sublime, these essays have the courage of conviction, the probing of genius, and the durable audacity to matter.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The Puttermesser Papers follows Ruth Puttermesser, a highly learned woman living in New York City, who creates a female golem to fulfill her yearning for a daughter and becomes mayor, only to face the unintended consequences of her fantasies. "A crazy delight." -The New York Time Book Review Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life is minimal (she prefers pouring through Plato to romping with married Morris Rappoport). And her fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true - with disastrous consequences for what we laughably call "reality." Puttermesser yearns for a daughter and promptly creates one, unassisted, in the form of the first recorded female golem. Laboring in the dusty crevices of the civil service, she dreams of reforming the city - and manages to get herself elected mayor. Puttermesser contemplates the afterlife and is hurtled into it headlong, only to discover that a paradise found is also paradise lost. Overflowing with ideas, lambent with wit, The Puttermesser Papers is a tour de force by one of our most visionary novelists. "The finest achievement of Ozick''s career... It has all the buoyant integrity of a Chagall painting." -San Francisco Chronicle "Fanciful, poignant... so intelligent, so finely expressed that, like its main character, it remains endearing, edifying, a spark of light in the gloom." -The New York Times

From one of America''s great literary figures, a new collection of essays on eminent writers and their work, and on the war between art and life. The perilous intersection of writers'' lives with public and private domains is the fertile subject of many of these remarkable essays from such literary giants as T. S. Eliot, Isaac Babel, Salman Rushdie, and Henry James. "A genuine literary education. . . . Each of these pieces is informed, gracefully written and propelled with narrative energy."—San Francisco Chronicle "A glittering new collection. . . . Each essay shimmers with intelligence."—The New York Times

""[Ozick''s] range of influences is obvious in the fine selections of poems and short stories as well as essays from Art & Ardor (1983) and Metaphor and Memory (1989) that Kauvar has so sensitively chosen."" --Booklist ""[This collection reflects] the imaginative, inventive, and insightful Ozick. Some of the best of Ozick as poet, essayist, and fiction writer is represented in A Cynthia Ozick Reader."" --Library Journal ""Gathered here are some bristling, incandescent tales and thorny essays that show Ozick at her finest."" --The Seattle Times Cynthia Ozick is among the ten most important writers in North America today. This Reader brings her manifold talents together in a sampler of the many genres she explores. The poems, stories, and essays in this collection burst with all the energy of her capacious imagination. For those who have always lauded her, the Reader offers a representative selection; those new to Cynthia Ozick''s work will revel in the discovery of a major writer.

A collection of essays that touch on the inner life of literaure and of the literary artist. Among the subjects covered are childhood''s passionate reading; ambition; the decline of the book as a universal habit; the consequences of gender politics; and the deceptions and impersonations of art.

A collection of readings relevant to the development of an intercultural psychology which takes into account the different circumstances, needs, values, constructions of reality, and worldviews and belief systems that significantly shape the experience and behavior of cultural groups. The 34 papers and introductory essay are arranged in four parts: the politics of difference; development, adaption, and the acquisition of culture; self and other in cultural context; and diagnostic assessment, treatment, and cultural bias. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Contains an essay on Virginia Woolf, Edith Warton and Gertrud Kolmar.

From the author of The Messiah of Stockholm and Art and Ardor comes a new collection of supple, provocative, and intellectually dazzling essays. In Metaphor & Memory, Cynthia Ozick writes about Saul Bellow and Henry James, William Gaddis and Primo Levi. She observes the tug-of-war between written and spoken language and the complex relation between art''s contrivances and its moral truths. She has given us an exceptional book that demonstrates the possibilities of literature even as it explores them. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

" Aussi musicienne que Proust, par son sens des images et des suggestions continues(...) elle sait concentrer en quelques phrases le pervers et le ridicule d''un personnage ". J. M. de Montrémy La Croix " Cynthia Ozick peuple les rues de ses villes de survivants (...) ils ont perdu les racines de leur passé, parce qu''ils ont perdu la langue. Mais ils ne peuvent pas adhérer au présent. Ils ont émigré de la réalité. " Cécile Wajsbrot, Le Magazine Littéraire.

A small group of Jews weave a web of intrigue and fantasy around a book reviewer''s contention that he is the son of Borus Schultz, the legendary Polish writer killed by the Nazis before his magnum opus, THE MESSIAH, could be brought to light.

Le pédagogue et l''enfant-génie. Une stimulante initiation au "roman juif américain" des années 1980, comme l''écrit Nicole Zand dans ##Le Monde## du 28 février 1986, p. 18. Le héros est un principal d''école primaire de la région de Milwaukee, juif d''origine française, aux ambitions inaccomplies. Dans la lignée d''Isaac Bashevis Singer.

**** Reprint of the Knopf edition that is cited in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Partial Contents: (1) Remembering Maurice Samuels (2) Justice to Feminism.