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The Puttermesser Papers
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
The Puttermesser Papers
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Cynthia Ozick
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:320 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780857899798
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Classifications | Dewey:813.54 |
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Audience | General | Tertiary Education (US: College) | Professional & Vocational | |
Edition |
Main - Print On Demand
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Atlantic Books
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Imprint |
Atlantic Books
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Publication Date |
2 January 2014 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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.
ReviewsWonderfully 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 *
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