Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
Knopf (1983), Edition: 1st, 306 pages
Description
Art & Ardor was the first of Cynthia Ozick's collections of her non-fiction pieces, and covers the longest span (1968 to 1983) of the now seven volumes. First printed in a variety of publications, these pieces appeared in not only The New Republic, Partisan Review, and The New York Review of Books, but also Mademoiselle and Ms.
Media reviews
THIS is not your typical collection of essays by an eminent middleaged writer of fiction. You know the sort of book I mean - a graceful miscellany of book reviews, introductions and speeches, all wrapped up and offered to the public less as a book, really, than as a kind of laurel, a tribute to the
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author's literary importance. The magazine articles collected here do more than stand on their own. They jump up and down, they grab the reader by the shirt-front. We may be living in ''an era when the notion of belles-lettres is profoundly dead,'' as Miss Ozick says in her foreword, but it's thriving in ''Art & Ardor,'' which is by turns quarrelsome, quirky, unfair, funny and brilliant. Show Less
Awards
National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist — 1983)
Language
Original language
English
ISBN
0394530829 / 9780394530826