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    The Messiah of Stockholm

    Part of Vintage International

    Author Cynthia Ozick
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    $18.00 US
    Knopf | Vintage
    5.25"W x 7.92"H x 0.36"D   | 6 oz | 48 per carton
    On sale Feb 12, 1988 | 160 Pages | 9780394756943
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    A small group of Jews weave a web of intrigue and fantasy around a book reviewer's contention that he is the son of Borus Schultz, the legendary Polish writer killed by the Nazis before his magnum opus, THE MESSIAH, could be brought to light.
    "A truly intriguing mystery...Ozick brings off effects comparable to those of Isaac Bashevis Singer, who can persuade the reader to believe the incredible" -- D. J. Enright, The New York Review of Books

    "An arresting, original puzzle of a novel...The orphan desperate to know his father, a familiar theme of fairy tales and myths, is made magical once again." -- People

    "A spellbinding novel...The Messiah of Stockholm reaffirms Cynthia Ozick's position as one of the finest and most imaginative writers of our time." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    "Intrigues and entertains...weaves a tale that is richly, intensely imagined." -- Anne Tyler, The New Republic

    "A striking book...Ozick writes with ferocious imaginative drive."

    -- Boston Globe

    "A magician...a literary alchemist...a brilliant wordsmith."

    -- USA Today
    © Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times/Redux
    CYNTHIA OZICK, a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award for fiction and a National Book Critics Circle winner for essays, is the author of Trust, The Messiah of Stockholm, The Shawl, and The Puttermesser Papers, and many others. She lives in New York. View titles by Cynthia Ozick

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    A small group of Jews weave a web of intrigue and fantasy around a book reviewer's contention that he is the son of Borus Schultz, the legendary Polish writer killed by the Nazis before his magnum opus, THE MESSIAH, could be brought to light.

    Praise

    "A truly intriguing mystery...Ozick brings off effects comparable to those of Isaac Bashevis Singer, who can persuade the reader to believe the incredible" -- D. J. Enright, The New York Review of Books

    "An arresting, original puzzle of a novel...The orphan desperate to know his father, a familiar theme of fairy tales and myths, is made magical once again." -- People

    "A spellbinding novel...The Messiah of Stockholm reaffirms Cynthia Ozick's position as one of the finest and most imaginative writers of our time." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    "Intrigues and entertains...weaves a tale that is richly, intensely imagined." -- Anne Tyler, The New Republic

    "A striking book...Ozick writes with ferocious imaginative drive."

    -- Boston Globe

    "A magician...a literary alchemist...a brilliant wordsmith."

    -- USA Today

    Author

    © Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times/Redux
    CYNTHIA OZICK, a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award for fiction and a National Book Critics Circle winner for essays, is the author of Trust, The Messiah of Stockholm, The Shawl, and The Puttermesser Papers, and many others. She lives in New York. View titles by Cynthia Ozick

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