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Article: Cynthia Ozick. Heir to the Glimmering World.(Book Review)
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- World Literature Today
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- September 1, 2005
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Cynthia Ozick. Heir to the Glimmering World. New York. Houghton Mifflin. 2004. 310 pages. $24. ISBN 0-618-47049-2
THE MIXTURE of the realistic and the often incredible in Cynthia Ozick's fiction heightens the sense of exile from which her protagonists suffer. This spiritual homelessness can stem from an individual's conflict with the profane ("The Pagan Rabbi," 1971), literal displacement (The Cannibal Galaxy, 1983), or ordinary detachment (The Messiah of Stockholm, 1987). Chief among the exiles and homeless in Heir to the Glimmering World is a refugee family from Berlin, washed up first in Albany, then in the Bronx, in the early 1930s. The father is a scholar of ...
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Article: TURNING A PAGE 38 YEARS INTO HER CAREER, CYNTHIA ...
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... ... this fall. Senior to them, however, is Cynthia Ozick, 76, whose "Heir to the Glimmering World" was just published. Those first three ... Her new novel is solid, wonderful." Cynthia Ozick's erudition is daunting, and the tone ...
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