- Fiction, Jewish women, Women mayors, Jewish women in fiction
From Cynthia Ozick, a masterful modern-day picaresque - the adventures of a female Don Quixote transplanted in Manhattan. Ruth Puttermesser, yearning for a life of the mind (her idol is George Eliot), finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy.
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- Author
- Cynthia Ozick
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 235
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Vintage
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780099289456
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Cynthia Ozick was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents. She received a B.A. from New York University and a M.A. from Ohio State University. She is a 1982 Guggenheim Fellow and received a Mildred and Harold Strauss Living award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She writes about politics, history, and literary criticism. The Holocaust is a recurring theme, and she often writes about life as a Jewish American.
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