Money and conscience are at the heart of Cynthia Ozick's masterly first novel, narrated by a nameless young woman and set in the private world of wealthy New York, the dire landscape of postwar Europe, and the mythical groves of a Shakespearean isle. Beginning in the 1930s and extending through four decades, Trust is an epic tale of the narrator's quest for her elusive father, a scandalous figure whom she has never known. In a provocative afterword, Ozick reflects on how she came to write the novel and discusses the cultural shift in the nature of literary ambition in the years since.
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CYNTHIA OZICK is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. She is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Man Booker International Prize. Her stories have won four O. Henry first prizes.
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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
ponderous, bloated, and self-absorbed,
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I was so glad when I got to page 639 of Trust - it was finally over. I had literally slogged through the last 600 pages of one of the most ponderous narratives I can ever remember reading. Its hard to find a reason to recommend it - the characters are unlikeable, the tone is heavy-handed and pedantic, the plot holds few surprises and is otherwise subsumed by the many philosophical digressions.Trust is a story of a sad sack of a girl (frumpy intellectual 20-something) in a dysfunctional relationship with the world, "searching" for a father she has never met. Trust is the story of her quest to find him. Unfortunately, the quest is largely internal, and is sloooowly revealed through the interactions with 3 other (really unlikeable) main characters -- (1) her mother, Allegra, a vapid and extremely wealthy socialite (2) her stepfather, Enoch, a logician and "intellectual", and (3) her mother's first husband, William, a dour attorney who manages the "Trust". Selfish, self-satisfied, self-righteous - all of the characters are 2-dimensional caricatures of people you hope to never get stuck with at a cocktail party. Everyone appears to really dislike the narrator for his or her own reasons, which are self-absorbed and explored exhaustively. For that matter, everyone seems to dislike everyone, which is one thing I had in common with the characters....
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I love Cynthia Ozick's writing and although there are bursts of brilliance, I found this book largely unreadable.
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After the exercises I stood in the muddy field (it had rained at dawn) and felt the dark wool of my gown lap up the heat and din of noon, and at that instant, while the graduates ran with cries toward asterisks of waiting parents and the sun hung like an animal's tongue from a sickened blue maw, I heard the last stray call of a bugle-single, lost, unconnected-and in one moment I grew suddenly old. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Miss Jewett, Gustave Nicholas Tilbeck, New York, Harriet Beecher, Sarah Jean, Marianna Harlow, Allegra Vand, Miss Pettigrew, Adam Gruenhorn, Euphoria Karp, Youth Leader, United States, San Francisco, Miss Lamb, Town Island, Enoch Vand, Madame Vand, Miss Tilbeck, New Oxford Street, Professor Karp, The Law of the Sea, Wall Street, Anna Karenina, New Haven, New Rochelle New!
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After the exercises I stood in the muddy field (it had rained at dawn) and felt the dark wool of my gown lap up the heat and din of noon, and at that instant, while the graduates ran with cries toward asterisks of waiting parents and the sun hung like an animal's tongue from a sickened blue maw, I heard the last stray call of a bugle-single, lost, unconnected-and in one moment I grew suddenly old. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
private visitor, blue bicycle, old ambition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Jewett, Gustave Nicholas Tilbeck, New York, Harriet Beecher, Sarah Jean, Marianna Harlow, Allegra Vand, Miss Pettigrew, Adam Gruenhorn, Euphoria Karp, Youth Leader, United States, San Francisco, Miss Lamb, Town Island, Enoch Vand, Madame Vand, Miss Tilbeck, New Oxford Street, Professor Karp, The Law of the Sea, Wall Street, Anna Karenina, New Haven, New Rochelle New!
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- Heir to the Glimmering World: A Novel by Cynthia Ozick in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy on page 212, and page 217
- The Puttermesser Papers: A Novel by Cynthia Ozick in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Anna Karenina (Norton Critical Editions) by L.N. Tolstoy on page 212, and page 217
- Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey on page 375
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