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Dictation: A QuartetFour stories of comedy, deception, and revenge, including one previously unpublished, from the acclaimed author of Heir to the Glimmering World.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
Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge, including one previously unpublished, from the acclaimed author of Heir to the Glimmering World.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.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 04/14/2009
ISBN: 9780547237879
Pages: 179
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.60d
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Great gift!
Format: Hardcover
Really nice quality, good illustrations. My boyfriend loved it.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2016
★★★★★ 4
Funny and not too harsh
Format: Hardcover
This is a funny little book that even most religious people should be able to enjoy. It doesn't go too far in poking fun.
A highlight is the peek inside Flanders' head where one can inspect the varioius compartments of his mind.
--Guy P. Harrison, author of
Race and Reality: What Everyone Should Know About Our Biological Diversity
and
50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God
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Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2008
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Awesome another cool piece to add to my collection.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2014
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Five Stars
Format: Hardcover
Stupid sexy Flanders
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Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2014
★★★★★ 4
funny!
Format: Hardcover
See the "candy wrapper rustler", the "hymn hummer" and all the others you remember )or still know, from church. See Homer's water-slide-to-the-baptismal-pool, and more. Fun to give as a gift.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2008
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