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The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
Two award-winning works of fiction by one of America's finest writers, together in one collection. In The Shawl, a woman named Rosa Lublin watches a concentration camp guard murder her daughter. In Rosa, that same woman appears 30 years later, a mad woman and a scavenger in a Miami hotel. She has no life in the present because her past will never end. In both stories, there is a shawl a shawl that can sustain a starving child, inadvertently destroy her, or magically conjure her back to life. Both stories were originally published in the New Yorker in the 1980s; each was included in the annual Best American Short Stories and awarded First Prize in the annual O. Henry Prize Stories collection. Each succeeds in imagining the unimaginable: the horror of the Holocaust and the unfillable emptiness of its aftermath. Fiercely immediate, complex, and unforgettable, each is a masterwork by a writer the New York Times hailed as the most accomplished and graceful literary stylist of our time.Cynthia Ozick is the author of Trust, The Messiah of Stockholm, The Shawl, and The Puttermesser Papers, as well as a Lannan Prize winner for fiction and a National Book Critics Circle winner for essays. She is a New Yorker.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780679729266 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679729267 |
| Title | The Shawl |
| Author | Cynthia Ozick |
| Series | Vintage International |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1990-08-29 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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