Author's curiosity about life's darker side yields a legacy of ideas in 'Heir'
16th Sep 2005, 13:38 GMT
Cynthia Ozick's writing has rarely focused on what critic Lionel Trilling once called "the smiling aspects of life." Yet despite the somber recesses in her latest book, swift storytelling transforms the disparate lives of wildly eccentric characters into an unforgettable novel of ideas.
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