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Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick is the author, most recently, of the novel Antiquities (Alfred A. Knopf). Last year, Everyman’s Library of Contemporary Classics published a collection of her work, In a Yellow Wood: Selected Stories and Essays. She is a recipient of both the PEN/Nabokov Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for fiction as well as a National Book Critics Circle Award for her criticism.

The Wife

The Wife

By: Cynthia Ozick

"When they came to the door, she shrieked through the peephole, she drove them off, how they feared her! She could hear their heels pounding down the half-dozen flights of cracked marble."