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The Puttermesser Papers

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Puttermesser Papers
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Cynthia Ozick
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:320
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780857899798
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
Edition Main - Print On Demand

Publishing Details

Publisher Atlantic Books
Imprint Atlantic Books
Publication Date 2 January 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental; her love life is minimal. And her most idle fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true. She yearns for a daughter and promptly creates one, unassisted, in the form of the first recorded female golem -a Jewish mythological homunculus. She also manages to get herself elected mayor. Then Puttermesser inadvisably contemplates the afterlife, whereupon she is immediately hurtled into it headlong and discovers, at the end of it all, that a paradise found is also paradise lost.

Author Biography

Cynthia Ozick is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. She is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Man Booker International Prize. Her stories have won four O. Henry first prizes and, in 2012, her novel Foreign Bodies was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She currently lives in New York.

Reviews

Wonderfully rich and entertaining * Observer * A fabulous novel... A modern fable, a satire that shows how it ought to be done * The Times * A novel of unspeakable joys * Guardian *