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The Puttermesser papers
- Title
- The Puttermesser papers / Cynthia Ozick.
- Author
- Ozick, Cynthia.
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 98-1845 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | *PST 02-3 | Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 |
Details
- Description
- 235 p.; 23 cm
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Jewish fiction.
- Picaresque literature.
- Contents
- Puttermesser : her work history, her ancestry, her afterlife -- Puttermesser and Xanthippe -- Puttermesser paired -- Puttermesser and the Muscovite cousin -- Puttermesser in Paradise.
- Call Number
- JFD 98-1845
- ISBN
- 0679454764 (alk. paper)
- 9780679454762 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96039155
- OCLC
- 35723548
- Author
- Ozick, Cynthia.
- Title
- The Puttermesser papers / Cynthia Ozick.
- Imprint
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
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- Other Form:
- Online version: Ozick, Cynthia. Puttermesser papers. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997 (OCoLC)643925470
- Research Call Number
- JFD 98-1845*PST 02-3