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Dictation; A Quartet
por Ozick, Cynthia
- Usado
- first
- Condição
- Fine in dust jacket.
- Livreiro
-
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Sobre este item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket.. 8vo, 179pp; cloth-backed boards. A nice presentation copy to poet and critic D.H. Melhem, inscribed on the title page: "For Diana, of our past, our present, and our future! Always in friendship, & and esteem, Cynthia," with the date "5/19/08" added in another ink beneath the inscription, and with a stray ink mark with the first pen on the following leaf (dedication page).
Sinopse
Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge, including one previously unpublished, from the acclaimed author of Heir to the Glimmering World. Cynthia Ozick’s new work of fiction brings together four long stories 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. These not-so-innocents proceed from self-deception to deceiving others, who do not take it lightly. Revenge is the consequence -- and for the reader, a delicious, if dark, recognition of emotional truth. The glorious new novella “Dictation” imagines a fateful meeting between the secretaries to Henry James and Joseph Conrad at the peak of their 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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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Locus Solus Rare Books
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 206115
- Título
- Dictation; A Quartet
- Autor
- Ozick, Cynthia
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Fine in dust jacket.
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin
- Local de publicação
- Boston
- Data de publicação
- 2008
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