Word: ozick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italian village that during World War II attempted to hide 1,320,000 bottles of vermouth from the German army. Beggars on Horseback, by James Mossman, is a grisly, giggly satire about a mythical Middle Eastern kingdom where the British muddle through until they fizzle out. Trust, by Cynthia Ozick, is a massive (568 pages) and almost continuously impressive attempt to reconstruct the near-religious experience of Marxism cum Utopianism that gripped American Jewry in the '30s. Moss on the North Side, by Sylvia Wilkinson, is a poetic apperception of childhood elaborated by one of the most gifted women...
...Cynthia Ozick's ill-fed, unkempt, rumpled and generally undusted husband, I deny your characterization of her-in your otherwise shining review of Trust [Aug. 12]-as a "housewife." That, God knows...
...Italian village that during World War II attempted to hide 1,320,000 bottles of vermouth from the German army. Beggars on Horseback, by James Mossman, is a grisly, giggly satire about a mythical Middle Eastern kingdom where the British muddle through until they fizzle out. Trust, by Cynthia Ozick, is a massive (568 pages) and almost continuously impressive attempt to reconstruct the near-religious experience of Marxism cum Utopianism that gripped American Jewry in the depressed and troubled '30s. Moss on the North Side, by Sylvia Wilkinson, is a poetic apperception of childhood elaborated...
...include another Remembrance of Things Past or even a Gone With the Wind-speaking of first novels-but it does present more than a dozen books of rippling readability, and several that promise to become bestsellers. Above all, it introduces four new novelists-Robert Crichton, James Mossman, Cynthia Ozick, Sylvia Wilkinson-whose literary skill and temperamental resonance argue remarkable things to come...