Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge, including one previously unpublished, from the acclaimed author of Heir to the Glimmering World .
Ozick is at her most devious, delightful best in these four works, illuminating the ease with which comedy can glide into calamity..
In a masterstroke of genius, Ozick hatches a plot between them to insert themselves into posterity.
Timid Miss Hallowes, who types for Conrad, comes under the influence of James\'s Miss Bosanquet, high-spirited, flirtatious, and scheming.
The glorious new novella "Dictation" imagines a fateful meeting between the secretaries to Henry James and Joseph Conrad at the peak of their fame.
Revenge is the consequence -- and for the reader, a delicious, if dark, recognition of emotional truth.
These not-so-innocents proceed from self-deception to deceiving others, who do not take it lightly.
Each starts in the comic mode, with heroes who suffer from willful self-deceit.
Cynthia Ozick\'s new work of fiction brings together four long stories that showcase this incomparable writer\'s sly humor and piercing insight into the human heart.
Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge, including one previously unpublished, from the acclaimed author of Heir to the Glimmering World
