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Fame & Folly

Essays (PEN Literary Award Winner)

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$14.00 US
5.21"W x 8.02"H x 0.63"D   | 9 oz | 24 per carton
On sale May 27, 1997 | 304 Pages | 978-0-679-76754-1
From one of America's great literary figures, a new collection of essays on eminent writers and their work, and on the war between art and life. The perilous intersection of writers' lives with public and private domains is the fertile subject of many of these remarkable essays from such literary giants as T. S. Eliot, Isaac Babel, Salman Rushdie, and Henry James.

"A genuine literary education. . . . Each of these pieces is informed, gracefully written and propelled with narrative energy."—San Francisco Chronicle

"A glittering new collection. . . . Each essay shimmers with intelligence."—The New York Times
© 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 othersShe lives in New York. View titles by Cynthia Ozick

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From one of America's great literary figures, a new collection of essays on eminent writers and their work, and on the war between art and life. The perilous intersection of writers' lives with public and private domains is the fertile subject of many of these remarkable essays from such literary giants as T. S. Eliot, Isaac Babel, Salman Rushdie, and Henry James.

"A genuine literary education. . . . Each of these pieces is informed, gracefully written and propelled with narrative energy."—San Francisco Chronicle

"A glittering new collection. . . . Each essay shimmers with intelligence."—The New York Times

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© 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 othersShe lives in New York. View titles by Cynthia Ozick

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