Award Winning Books by
CYNTHIA OZICK
| 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 famou...
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| With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. 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 -...
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| A devastating vision of the Holocaust and the unfillable emptiness it left in the lives of those who passed through it....
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| 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....
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| This novel is about the uneasy condition of Jewish heritage in the prevailing Gentile culture of middle America....
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Cynthia Ozick Award Stats |
Major Prize* Nominations |
5 |
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Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* |
5 |
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Pulitzer Prize Wins |
0 |
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Pulitzer Prize Nominations |
0 |
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National Book Critics Circle Award Wins |
0 |
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National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations |
2 |
Bloodshed · Levitation · |
National Book Award Wins |
0 |
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National Book Award Nominations |
1 |
The Puttermesser Papers · |
Man Booker Prize Wins |
0 |
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Man Booker Prize Nominations |
0 |
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PEN/Faulkner Award Wins |
0 |
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PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations |
2 |
The Cannibal Galaxy · The Messiah of Stockholm · |
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*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award
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