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Acclaimed for both her fiction and criticism, Cynthia Ozick was a finalist for the National Book Award for her penultimate novel The Puttermesser Papers, and her recent essay collection, Quarrel & Quandary, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. In Heir to the Glimmering World, Ozick pays homage to the most beloved writers of the nineteenth century - Charles Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot - in a story set on the outskirts of the Bronx in the 1930s.