Dictation: a Quartet - Cynthia Ozick - Books - Mariner Books - 9780547237879 - April 1, 2009
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Cynthia Ozick

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Dictation: a Quartet Reprint edition

Ozick?s latest work of fiction brings together four long stories, including the novella-length "Dictation," 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. From self-deception, these not-so-innocents proceed to deceive others, who don?t take it lightly. Revenge is the consequence—and for the reader, a delicious if dark recognition of emotional truth.

The glorious novella "Dictation" imagines a fateful meeting between the secretaries to Henry James and Joseph Conrad at the peak of those authors? 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.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 1, 2009
ISBN13 9780547237879
Publishers Mariner Books
Pages 179
Dimensions 130 × 200 × 20 mm   ·   181 g
Language English  

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