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The Puttermesser Papers

The Puttermesser Papers

Ozick, Cynthia

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

FantasyGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0679777393
ISBN13: 9780679777397
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Jun 30 1998
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.31 Depth: 8.08
Language: English
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - The Puttermesser Papers follows Ruth Puttermesser, a highly learned woman living in New York City, who creates a female golem to fulfill her yearning for a daughter and becomes mayor, only to face the unintended consequences of her fantasies.

A crazy delight. -The New York Time Book Review

Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life is minimal (she prefers pouring through Plato to romping with married Morris Rappoport). And her fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true - with disastrous consequences for what we laughably call reality.

Puttermesser yearns for a daughter and promptly creates one, unassisted, in the form of the first recorded female golem. Laboring in the dusty crevices of the civil service, she dreams of reforming the city - and manages to get herself elected mayor. Puttermesser contemplates the afterlife and is hurtled into it headlong, only to discover that a paradise found is also paradise lost. Overflowing with ideas, lambent with wit, The Puttermesser Papers is a tour de force by one of our most visionary novelists.

The finest achievement of Ozick's career... It has all the buoyant integrity of a Chagall painting. -San Francisco Chronicle

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