Cynthia Ozick has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators. The most-rated is Cynthia Ozick at the 92nd Street Y.
The Shawl
Summary
At once fiercely immediate and complex in their implications, “The Shawl” and “Rosa” succeed in imagining the unimaginable: the horror of the Holocaust and the emptiness of its aftermath. They were written in 1977 but were first published in the early 1980s in The New Yorker. Both “The Shawl” and “Rosa” won first prize in the O. Henry Prize Stories and were chosen for Best American Short Stories. In “The Shawl,” a woman named Rosa Lublin watches a concentration camp guard murder her daughter. In “Rosa,” that same woman appears 30 years later, “a madwoman and a scavenger” in a Miami hotel. And in both stories there is a shawl—a shawl that can sustain a starving child or inadvertently destroy her, or even magically conjure her back to life.
©1980, 1983 Original material by Cynthia Ozick (P)2008 HighBridge Company
Foreign Bodies
Summary
Longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction Pulitzer Prize finalist Cynthia Ozick’s fiction has been awarded multiple O. Henry Prizes. In Foreign Bodies, Ozick crafts a remarkable retelling of Henry James’ The Ambassadors—deftly using its plot, yet boldly infusing the novel with an all new place, time, and meaning. It’s 1952, and middle-aged Bea Nightingale reluctantly agrees to fly to Paris to help convince her estranged runaway nephew to return to his family. But Bea’s experiences abroad will change her forever.
©2010 Cynthia Ozick (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC
Cynthia Ozick at the 92nd Street Y
Summary
In 2008, Cynthia Ozick published a new collection of stories, Dictation, and won both the PEN/Malumud Award and PEN/Nabokov Award for lifetime achievement. Also a novelist and critic, Ms. Ozick "embodies literature's finest potential: the strength and rigor of formality combined with the flexibility and vigor (the sap) of creativity," wrote the Los Angeles Times. This program is one of a series of afternoon talks, hosted by Roger Rosenblatt, which features intimate discussions with writers about their work, their passions and the books on their night tables.
©2008 92nd Street Y (P)2008 92nd Street Y