The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick
Overflowing with ideas, spiked with wit and humanity, The Puttermesser Papers is a tour de force by one of America's most visionary novelists. 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. A novel of unspeakable joys - Guardian Shortlisted for the 1997 National Book Award
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 *
A fabulous novel.. A modern fable, a satire that shows how it ought to be done * The Times *
A novel of unspeakable joys * Guardian *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857899798 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857899791 |
| Title | The Puttermesser Papers |
| Author | Cynthia Ozick |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
| Year published | 2014-01-02 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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