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The Puttermesser papers / Cynthia Ozick.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Ozick Putter
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ozick, Cynthia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish women--Fiction.
- Jewish women.
- Women mayors--Fiction.
- Women mayors.
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Genre:
- Jewish fiction.
- Picaresque literature.
- Physical Description:
- 235 p. ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
- Summary:
- A rollicking extravaganza on Ruth Puttermesser, a woman lawyer who with the help of a genie becomes mayor of New York. Her real ambition, however, is to be a mother, but for that she has to wait until she is murdered and goes to heaven, where she meets the child's father. By the author of The Shawl.
- Contents:
- Puttermesser : her work history, her ancestry, her afterlife
- Puttermesser and Xanthippe
- Puttermesser paired
- Puttermesser and the Muscovite cousin
- Puttermesser in Paradise.
- Cited in:
- Fiction core collection. 16th ed., p. 681
- ISBN:
- 0679454764 (alk. paper)
- 9780679454762 (alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 35723548
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