Dictation: A Quartet.
by OZICK, Cynthia
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin,, 2008.. First edition.. 179 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Synopsis
Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge, including one previously unpublished, from the acclaimed author of Heir to the Glimmering World. Cynthia Ozick’s new work of fiction brings together four long stories that showcase this incomparable writer’s sly humor and piercing insight into the human heart. Each starts in the comic mode, with heroes who suffer from willful self-deceit. These not-so-innocents proceed from self-deception to deceiving others, who do not take it lightly. Revenge is the consequence -- and for the reader, a delicious, if dark, recognition of emotional truth. The glorious new novella “Dictation” imagines a fateful meeting between the secretaries to Henry James and Joseph Conrad at the peak of their fame. Timid Miss Hallowes, who types for Conrad, comes under the influence of James’s Miss Bosanquet, high-spirited, flirtatious, and scheming. In a masterstroke of genius, Ozick hatches a plot between them to insert themselves into posterity. Ozick is at her most devious, delightful best in these four works, illuminating the ease with which comedy can glide into calamity.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72196
- Title
- Dictation: A Quartet.
- Author
- OZICK, Cynthia
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition.
- Publisher
- Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin,
- Date Published
- 2008.
Terms of Sale
Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA
Any book returnable for any reason within 10 days with prior notice. CA residents please add 9.5% sales tax. Libraries can be billed as needed.
About the Seller
Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Berkeley, California
About Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA
Fine and rare books with an emphasis on 20th C. poetry, small press, literary magazines, broadsides, and interesting books in most fields.
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