Ozick's wonderful sentences might otherwise occasion.' - Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review The experience of reading The Shawl is immensely troubling, especially if one pauses to think and feel and is not simply lulled by the pure pleasure that Ms. Ozick (.) pulls off the rare trick of making art out of what we would rather not see. 'In her remarkable new book, The Shawl, Ms.To build any language out of this inability to articulate seems impossible yet, Ozick does it in such a way that we, as readers, share the characters' powerlessness to give words to their innermost experiences and, therefore, are forced to relive them.' - Ursula Hegi, The Los Angeles Times (.) Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl is brilliant, moving, and chilling as it attempts to convey a terror so immense that it overwhelms the characters and renders them speechless. 'Devastating and exquisite, Cynthia Ozick's ninth book, The Shawl, carries the emotional impact of a much longer work.Ozick's volume is a particularly welcome achievement of the moral imagination.' - Irving Halperin, Commonweal 'In a time when the memory of the Holocaust is being trivialized by slick fiction, talk shows, and TV 'documentaries,' and when some social 'scientists' (necrophiliacs, Rosa would call them) are doing 'research projects,' written in atrocious psychobabble, on the 'survivor,' Ms.Henry Prize Stories collectionsĪ- : harsh, moving story and novella about the horror of the Holocaust and life afterwards Both stories were awarded first prize in the annual O.Both stories were included in volumes of the annual Best American Short Stories.Contains the stories The Shawl and Rosa, both written in 1977 but first published in The New Yorker in the early 1980s.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author

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