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    <body><![CDATA[The writing is stupendous. The feeling that the book left me with subtracts a couple of stars. This is the first thing I've read by Ozick . . . Just happened to see it on the shelf and was intrigued by the title, then sold by the cover blurb. Of course I want to read about a &quot;female Don Quixote...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65195099">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;She played chess against herself, and was always victor over the color she had decided to identify with&quot; (4).<br/>&quot;Puttermesser reads and reads. Her eyes in Paradise are unfatigued. And if she still does not know what it is she wants to solve, she has only to read on&quot; (13).<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76514816">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is really well written.  It is a story about a lonely Jewish intellectual and her life.  <br/>The first part deals with insaneness of bureaucrats in the city government.  And though civil service was created in order to avoid politics the head government are political appointees that may ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59029142">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this several months ago now, and I keep thinking about the protagonist, Ruth Puttermesser, and some of the situations she finds herself in-- being mayor of NYC; creating a sex-crazed golem.  It's an odd, fun read, a female, Jewish, NYC take on the picaresque novel. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So good! A magical text, brilliantly written; Ozick touches the reader in every way -- humor, intellect, emotion -- not a very big book but highly recommended. Now I'll have to move all those Eliot novels to the front of my book stack.<br/>]]></body>
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