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Quarrel & Quandary: Essays

by Cynthia Ozick

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Quarrel & Quandary showcases the manifold talents of one of our leading and award-winning critics and essayists.In nineteen opulent essays, Cynthia Ozick probes Dostoevsky for insights into the Unabomber, questions the role of the public intellec... Read more
Quarrel & Quandary showcases the manifold talents of one of our leading and award-winning critics and essayists.

In nineteen opulent essays, Cynthia Ozick probes Dostoevsky for insights into the Unabomber, questions the role of the public intellectual, and dares to wonder what poetry is. She roams effortlessly from Kafka to James, Styron to Stein, and, in the book''s most famous essay, dissects the gaudy commercialism that has reduced Anne Frank to "usable goods." Courageous, audacious, and sublime, these essays have the courage of conviction, the probing of genius, and the durable audacity to matter. Less

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ISBN9780375724459
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Cynthia Ozick
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Cynthia Shoshana Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist. Ozick's fiction and essays are often about Jewish American life, but she also writes about polit...

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