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Dictation : a quartet / Cynthia Ozick.
Van Pelt Library PS3565.Z5 D53 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ozick, Cynthia.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 179 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
- Summary:
- Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge (including one previously unpublished) showcases heroes who suffer from willful self-deceit. These not-so-innocents proceed from self-deception to deceiving others, who do not take it lightly. The novella "Dictation" imagines a fateful meeting between the secretaries to Henry James and Joseph Conrad at the peak of their fame. Timid Miss Hallowes, who types for Conrad, comes under the influence of James's Miss Bosanquet, high-spirited, flirtatious, and scheming. In a masterstroke of genius, Ozick hatches a plot between them to insert themselves into posterity.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Dictation
- Actors
- At Fumicaro
- What happened to the baby?
- ISBN:
- 9780547054001
- 0547054009
- OCLC:
- 187417675
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