The Din in the Head
 The Din in the Head: Cynthia Ozick has long held her reputation as one of the most acclaimed critics working in America. Her essays are, without fail, uncompromisingly optimistic about what literature can do, what literature has done, and the hopes of [... more]
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Metaphor & Memory
A magisterial essayist.: Avoid Cynthia Ozick if you would rather be hip than learned. If you wish to read a remarkable analysis of how we (they) came to revere the hip over the learned, turn to "The Question of Our Speech: The Return to Aural [... more]
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The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and ...
A bit confusing but. . .: Well, not one of Mark Twain's finest, but The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is a good book. It deals with the temptation and corruption that occurs in everyones life. A couple receives anonymous money and is forced by reputation [... more]
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The Messiah of Stockholm
Beautiful writing: Ozick's sentences are so wonderfully crafted that I feel like I am in the Louvre of writing when I read her. This is just the second book by her that I have read and I am just delighted. It is true, as one reviewer stated, that she [... more]
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Fame & Folly: Essays
Amazon.com Review: In this collection of essays, fiction writer and critic Cynthia Ozick has chosen to take on an important topic for all writers: how the lives and works of authors fit in with the times. It is a task she manages with more than a healthy [... more]
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Heir to the Glimmering World: A Novel
Living off the legacy of Pooh: The glimmering world is one haunted by glimmering ghosts, and the characters who populate Ozick's novel--and they certainly are characters--find themselves burdened more than most folks by their dead-weight pasts. It's 1935, [... more]
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The Best American Essays 1998 (Best American)
A collection of brilliance -- the best art form: Being of a younger generation, my acquaintances are generally surprised to find me reading a collection of essays. This provides me with a golden opportunity to share the wealth I have found in this book. [... more]
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Seize the Day (Penguin Modern Classics)
'Time is envious and is running away from us. Seize the day.': Saul Bellow (1915--2005) published Seize the Day in 1956. It was his fourth novel. In 128 pages, the novel tells the day-in-the-life story of a failed actor in his forties, Wilhelm Adler ( [... more]
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Heir to the Glimmering World
Living off the legacy of Pooh: The glimmering world is one haunted by glimmering ghosts, and the characters who populate Ozick's novel--and they certainly are characters--find themselves burdened more than most folks by their dead-weight pasts. It's 1935, [... more]
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The Cossacks (Modern Library Classics)
"As one needs nothing oneself, why not live for others?": Olenin's epiphany: In the middle of _The Cossacks_, Dmitri Olenin, a young Russian cadet reflects joyfully, "Happiness is to live for others. How clear it is!," while being [... more]
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The Lost Childhood: The Complete Memoir
Author: Yehuda Nir Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318092 EAN: 9780971059863 Edition: 1st Paper Ed. of Complete Text ISBN: 0971059861 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: 2007-04-01 Reading Level: Young Adult [... more]
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Shawl, The
A disturbing and moving work: This short work telling of the death of a child in the Shoah, and the subsequent life- destroying effect on the mother of the child is a disturbing and moving one. The symbolic 'shawl' connects the two parts of the work. It [... more]
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