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.
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A typical jewish American writer, Ozick is quite capable of beautiful wording and complicated topics like relationship and faith. With insightful perspective on the trivialities as well as complexities of human mind, she offers four interestingly dazzling stories, in which comedies turn into calamities under the influence of self-deception.
评分A typical jewish American writer, Ozick is quite capable of beautiful wording and complicated topics like relationship and faith. With insightful perspective on the trivialities as well as complexities of human mind, she offers four interestingly dazzling stories, in which comedies turn into calamities under the influence of self-deception.
评分A typical jewish American writer, Ozick is quite capable of beautiful wording and complicated topics like relationship and faith. With insightful perspective on the trivialities as well as complexities of human mind, she offers four interestingly dazzling stories, in which comedies turn into calamities under the influence of self-deception.
评分A typical jewish American writer, Ozick is quite capable of beautiful wording and complicated topics like relationship and faith. With insightful perspective on the trivialities as well as complexities of human mind, she offers four interestingly dazzling stories, in which comedies turn into calamities under the influence of self-deception.
评分A typical jewish American writer, Ozick is quite capable of beautiful wording and complicated topics like relationship and faith. With insightful perspective on the trivialities as well as complexities of human mind, she offers four interestingly dazzling stories, in which comedies turn into calamities under the influence of self-deception.
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