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“Four expertly turned stories” of comedy, deception, and revenge from the acclaimed author of Heir to the Glimmering World (TheNew York Times Book Review).
A New York Times Notable Book
Dictation brings together four long stories by this Pulitzer and Man Booker Prize finalist, forming a quartet of sly humor and piercing insight into the human heart.
The title story 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 literary posterity.
Each story in the collection starts in the comic mode, with heroes who suffer willful self-deceit. From self-deception, these not-so-innocents proceed to deceive others, who don’t take it lightly. Revenge is the consequence—and for the reader, a delicious if dark recognition of emotional truth.
In Dictation, an author whose stories have won four O. Henry first prizes “reveals herself a master” (The New York Times Book Review).
“A testament to the seductions of language and the smoldering aspirations of art.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
“A brilliant book, a necessary book, a book that radiates the true intelligence of literature from every page.” —The New York Observer
A New York Times Notable Book
Dictation brings together four long stories by this Pulitzer and Man Booker Prize finalist, forming a quartet of sly humor and piercing insight into the human heart.
The title story 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 literary posterity.
Each story in the collection starts in the comic mode, with heroes who suffer willful self-deceit. From self-deception, these not-so-innocents proceed to deceive others, who don’t take it lightly. Revenge is the consequence—and for the reader, a delicious if dark recognition of emotional truth.
In Dictation, an author whose stories have won four O. Henry first prizes “reveals herself a master” (The New York Times Book Review).
“A testament to the seductions of language and the smoldering aspirations of art.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
“A brilliant book, a necessary book, a book that radiates the true intelligence of literature from every page.” —The New York Observer
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Author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, Cynthia Ozick is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. Her writing has appeared in the New Republic, Harper’s, and elsewhere. Ozick lives in New York.
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