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greenspe's review
5.0
For my money, Cynthia Ozick is the greatest American writer of the last 50 years whose name isn't Toni Morrison, but somewhat frustratingly none of her story collections are perfect--they all contain an example or two of her awesome originality and brilliance, and then a few duds. Fortunately this is rendered more or less irrelevant by the fact that they are all individually out of print in the US, but I've seen the UK-published "The Collected Stories of Cynthia Ozick" at multiple half-priced books. This, along with "The Puttermesser Papers", contains every short story or novella Ozick has published (except "Dictation," which I haven't read), so five stars for both of those, and go buy them.
nataliedc's review
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
3.75 stars. I adore Ozick's writing style. Favorites of this collection: Levitation, From a Refugee's Notebook (the second part), and Puttermesser and Xanthippe.
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