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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. Ozick takes us to the outskirts of the Bronx in the 1930s, as New York fills with Europe's ousted dreamers, turned overnight into refugees. Rose Meadows unknowingly enters this world when she answers an ambiguous want ad for an "assistant" to a Herr Mitwisse...

A short story (Rosa) and a novella (The Shawl) which together tell an exquisitely powerful and moving tale of the Holocaust.

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Paperback edition of Ozick's virtuoso novel which follows an American woman who moves to France after the collapse of her marriage, in the 1950s. Explores the relationship between the old world and the new during the 20th century.

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Nel 1935 la diciottenne Rose Meadows, orfana, brillante, colta, distrutta, "essenzialmente una persona che si limita a guardare e ascoltare" e appena buttata fuori dalla casa di suo cugino Bertram dall'odiosa fidanzata comunista, risponde a un annuncio di un giornale di Albany che richiede un'assistente per una famiglia recentemente arrivata da Berlino che deve, da lì a poco, trasferirsi a New York. Sebbene non sia chiaro se Rose debba fare da...

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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...

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Cynthia Ozick is a literary treasure. In her sixth novel, she retells Henry James's"The Ambassadors"and delivers a brilliant, utterly new American classic. At the core of the story is Bea Nightingale, a fiftyish divorced schoolteacher whose life has been on hold during the many years since her brief marriage.When her estranged, difficult brother asks her to travel to Europe to retrieve a nephew she barely knows, she becomes entangled in the l...

A devastating vision of the Holocaust and the unfillable emptiness it left in the lives of those who passed through it.

One of America's foremost novelists and critics, Cynthia Ozick has won praise and provoked debate for taking on challenging literary, historical, and moral issues. In her spirited essay collection The Din in the Head, she focuses on the essential joys of great literature. With razor-sharp wit and an inspiring joie de vivre, Ozick investigates unexpected byways in the works of Leo Tolstoy, Saul Bellow, Helen Keller, Isaac Babel, Sylvia Plath, S...

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La fine di un breve matrimonio ha congelato la vita di Bea Nightingale, lasciandola sola: una donna di mezz'età con il suo lavoro di insegnante in un quartiere povero di New York negli anni cinquanta. Ma un invito del fratello è il pretesto per lasciare quell'esistenza monotona e volare a Parigi alla ricerca del nipote, fuggito da casa. Forse anche per la ritrovata libertà, una volta incontrato il ragazzo, Bea decide di non riportarlo indietro...

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A selection of essays by the acclaimed and beloved writer Cynthia Ozick, collected by David Miller.

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