Puttermesser Papers

"...Cynthia Ozick's fanciful, poignant, elegant new novel is a kind of Jewish magical realism brought to the normally earthbound spiritual territory of the Bronx and Manhattan....Her Ruth Puttermesser is a little bit like a Bellow character, a female Herzog or Sammler....'The Puttermesser Papers' is a strange little book, a slender monument to a vision that is stark and unsparing but at the same time so intelligent, so finely expressed, that, like its main character, it remains endearing, edifying, a spark of light in the gloom."Ozick, Cynthia is the author of 'Puttermesser Papers', published 1998 under ISBN 9780679777397 and ISBN 0679777393.