Fame and Folly
Cynthia Ozick
From one of America's great literary figures, a collection of essays on eminent writers and their work, and on the war between art and life. The perilous intersection of writers' lives with public and private dooms is the fertile subject of many of these remarkable essays from such literary giants as T.S. Eliot, Isaac Babel, Salman Rushdie and Henry James.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Knopf
- Year
- 2017
- ISBN-13
- 9781786491114
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Topics
- Literary criticismWriters' livesEssays
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1997)
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