Cynthia Ozick, now nearing 97, has long been a significant but often underappreciated literary figure. With the release of 'In a Yellow Wood,' a comprehensive collection of her stories and essays, her multifaceted contributions as a novelist, memoirist, and essayist are celebrated. Critics acknowledge her intelligence and distinctive writing style, while her mischievousness and sharp wit shine through her works. This collection spans more than fifty years, encapsulating Ozick's literary journey from obscurity to recognition, reinforcing her status as a key voice in contemporary literature.
With the publication of In a Yellow Wood, a 712-page collection of Ozick's stories and essays, Everyman's Library has ruled in favor of the people.
Ozick is also really mischievous: Anyone who has enjoyed a YouTube snippet of her 1971 demolition job on Norman Mailer in the documentary Town Bloody Hall will find the same impishness in her prose.
Saul Bellow, asked whether he preferred her fiction or her nonfiction, waved the question away: 'She's triple-threat.'
She thinks densely and she writes densely, says Lebowitz, who's been reading Ozick since the '70s.
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